BETHERSDEN, a parish in the hundred of CHART-and-LONGBRIDGE, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 6 miles (W. S.W.) from Ashford, containing 1001 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £12, endowed with £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is dedicated to St. Beatrice. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. A fair is held here on the 1st of July. A considerable quantity of a species of grey marble, used for columns and the internal ornaments of various neighbouring churches, is obtained in the northern part of the parish. The inhabitants are entitled to send six children to the free school at Smarden.