a market-town of England, county of Kent, and hundred of Chart, 12 miles south-west of Canterbury, and 53 from London. It is pleasantly situated on a gentle eminence near the junction of the upper branches of the river Stour, and is a chief station of the South-Eastern Railway. Many of its houses are well built and handsome, and its principal street is nearly half a mile in length, and well paved and lighted. It has a fine old Gothic church, with a lofty well-proportioned tower, and many handsome monuments; four chapels, two banks, a savings-bank, market-house, assembly-rooms, a four-arch bridge over the Stour, and a free grammar-school founded by Sir Norton Knatchbull in the time of Charles I. Pop. in 1851, 4092.