LINTON, a parish in the hundred of MAIDSTONE,
lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 4 miles (S.)
from Maidstone, containing, with Crockhurst, 686 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at
£7 13. 4., and in the patronage of Earl Cornwallis.
The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. In 1813, John
Bowles bequeathed £200, the interest to be applied for
the instruction of four children: the income is
£10. 17. 11., which is paid to a schoolmistress, who
instructs sixteen children in reading and sewing.
This village is situated near the great range of hills
which bounds the Weald on the north. About half a
mile from it is Coxheath, an extensive plain, well watered
and highly salubrious, on which have been several large
encampments; in the year 1778 fifteen thousand men
encamped on this heath.