BURHAM, a parish in the hundred of LARKFIELD, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, If mile (N.N.W.) from Aylesford, containing 236 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £ 8, and in the patronage of C. Milner, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, stands near the river Medway, which bounds the parish on the west; a range of chalk hills, near which are Burham Downs, forming its eastern boundary^ Here is a spring, called Holy Garden, that anciently attracted numerous pilgrims, on account of the supposed miraculous efficacy of the water.