EBONY, a chapelry in the parish of APPLEDORE,
partly in the hundred of TENTERDEN, lathe of SCRAY,
but chiefly in the hundred of OXNEY, lathe of SHELWAY,
county of KENT, 4 miles (S.E.) from Tenterden,
containing 151 inhabitants. The chapel, dedicated to
St. Mary, stands on the site of a larger and more ancient
edifice, which was destroyed by lightning early in the
reign, of Elizabeth. The Grand Military canal passes
through that part of the chapelry which is in the lathe
of Scray, and the river Rother runs along the southern
boundary.