HALLING, a parish in the hundred of SHAMWELL, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 4 miles (S. W.) from Rochester, containing 346 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £7. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The -church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is principally in the early style of English architecture, with a low western tower and spire. The river Medway runs through, and a ridge of hills extends quite across, the parish. The bishops of Rochester had a palace here before the Conquest: it was rebuilt some time in the twelfth century, and additions made to it about the year 1320; the remains are considerable, and the walls of the chapel nearly entire.