KESTON, a parish in the hundred of RUXLEY,
lathe of SUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 5 miles
(S. by E.) from Bromley, containing 252 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the exempt deanery
of Shoreham, which is under the peculiar jurisdiction
and patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in
the king's-books at £6. 10. Holwood hill, the residence
of the late Rt. Hon. William Pitt, occupies an eminence
in this parish, and commands a delightful prospect of the
surrounding country; here are traces of a camp nearly
two miles in circumference, supposed to have been a
Castro, estiva of the Romans, and Roman coins, tiles,
and bricks, with two stone coffins, have been found at
different periods. Here is a fine cold spring, called Ravensbourne,
the water of which is considered to possess
excellent tonic properties.