a parish of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Ford and the lathe of Scray, forty-nine miles from London. The church was collegiate, supposed to have been part of a monastery founded by Sexburga, the wife of Ercombert, king of Kent, and eighteen stalls still remain in it. It is situated on the north side of the isle of Thanet. The population amounted in 1801 to 707, in 1811 to 824, in 1821 to 920, and in 1831 to 911.