BOBBING, a parish in the hundred of MILTON,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 1 mile (W. by N.)
from Milton, containing 325 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Miss
Simpson. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew,
is composed of two aisles, two chancels, and a western
tower supporting a spire. A fair is held on the 4th of
September. A benefaction of £50 from Ann Gibbon
has been vested in land, now producing £6. 6. per annum,
for which seven girls are instructed gratuitously.
At Key-Street, a small hamlet in this parish, corruptly
so called for Caius' street (Caii stratum), being situated
on a Roman highway, there is a gravel-pit of unusual
size and depth, from which Hasted conjectures the
Romans obtained part of the materials for making
the road.