CHART (SUTTON), a parish in the hundred of EYHORNE, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 5 miles (S.E. by S.) from Maidstone, containing 500 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £8.12. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, was, with its beautiful spire, destroyed by lightning in 1779, but has since been rebuilt; it stands near Sutton-Valence, on the summit of an eminence, the slope being occupied by the village. This parish, in Domesday-book called Certh, is intersected from east to west by the Quarry, or northern range of hills, here forming the boundary of the Weald: the southern declivity, both from its genial aspect and the richness of the soil, is well adapted to the culture of vines.