CHEVENING, a parish in the hundred of CODSHEATH,
lathe of BUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 3f
miles (N.W.) from Seven-Oaks, containing 812 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the exempt deanery of
Shoreham, which is within the peculiar jurisdiction of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books
at £21. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Botolph,
is adorned with several elegant monuments of the Lennard
family, and one to Lady Frederica Stanhope. Various
bequests of the Stanhope family are applied in
apprenticing children. The Pilgrims' path, -which led
towards Becket's shrine at Canterbury, passes here, and
forms a boundary of the Weald of Kent. Here is a fine
seat belonging to Earl Stanhope, at which the late earl
established the improved printing press bearing his
name: his lordship, celebrated for his various discoveries
in. mechanics and natural philosophy, died here,
in 1816. A fair is held on the 16th of May.