BILSINGTON, a parish partly in the liberty of HOMNEY-MARSH, but chiefly in the hundred of NEWCHURCH, lathe of SHEPWAY, county of KENT, 65 miles (S. S.E.) from Ashford, containing 299 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of T. Rider, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. A fair, formerly called Woodstock fair, is held here on July 5th. The Grand Military, or Shorncliffe and Rye, canal passes through the parish. There are some remains of a priory of Augustine canons, founded in 1253, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £81. 1, 6.