a village in the county of Kent, 8 miles N.N.E. of Canterbury, on the estuary of the Thames. It has recently come to be much frequented as a bathing place, and as a consequence, hotels, villas, assembly rooms, libraries, &c., are rapidly springing up. It has a pier upwards of three quarters of a mile in length, which forms a pleasant promenade. Pop. of parish (1851), 3094.