KINGSDOWN, a parish partly in the hundred of CODSHEATH, but chiefly in the hundred of AXTON-DARTFORD-and-WILMINGTON, lathe of SUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 2 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wrotham, containing 438 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of Maplescombe, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £9. 1. 8., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church, dedicated to St. Edmund, is a small building romantically situated in the bosom of a wood of about one hundred acres in extent. Kingsdown was anciently a chapelry in the parish of Sutton at Hone, and appropriated to the priory of St. Andrew in Rochester. Woodland, or Week, now only a hamlet to Kingsdown, was formerly a distinct parish.