HERNHILL, a parish in the hundred of BOUGHTON-under-BLEAN,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 3 miles
(E. by S.) from Faversham, containing 477 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the
king's books at £ 15. The church, dedicated to St. Michael,
is a handsome edifice, principally in the later style
of English architecture, situated on a lofty eminence;
it is divided within by clustered columns of Bethersden
marble, of peculiar elegance.