HORTON (MONKS), a parish in the hundred of STOUTING, lathe of SHEPWAY, county of KENT, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Hythe, containing 186 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated with the vicarage of Brabourne, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 10. 8. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is principally in the early style of English architecture. Here was a cell of Cluniac monks, founded in the reign of Henry II., subordinate .to the priory of Lewes, and dedicated to St. Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Pancras; its revenue, at the dissolution, was valued at £111. 16. 11.: the remains of the priory are in the Norman style; with later insertions,. and have been converted into a dwelling-house; a large circular arch, a short distance, curiously ornamented, is supposed to have been the entrance into the church.