HORTON (KIRBY), a parish in the hundred of
AXTON-DARTFORD-and-WILMINGTON, lathe of SUTTON
at HONE, county of KENT, 4 miles (S.S.E.) from Dartford,
containing 537 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Rochester, rated in the king's books at £5. 7. 6,, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. P. Rashleigh.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a cruciform structure,
with a tower rising from the intersection, and surmounted
by a spire. Here are extensive remains of a
castle, founded by the family of Ros about the time of
the Conquest, which have been partially converted into
the manorial farm-house. This village is situated upon
the eastern bank of the river Darent.