a market-town in the hundred of Bromley and Beckenham, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, and county of Kent, ten miles S.E. of London. It consists chiefly of one long street with some good houses, and has an old market-house, savings-bank, literary institution, and a college for the residence and support of 40 widows of clergymen. The church is a fine Gothic edifice, containing some handsome monuments; and in the vicinity is a palace belonging to the bishops of Rochester. Pop. of parish (1851) 4127.