LONGFIELD, a parish in the hundred of
AXTON-DARTFORD-and-WILMINGTON, lathe of SUTTON at
HONE, county of KENT, 5 miles (S. E.) from Dartford,
containing 113 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester,
rated in the king's books at £5. 17. 6., endowed with
£400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty,
-and in the patronage of the Bishop of Rochester. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary. Magdalene, contains the
remains of the beneficent Archdeacon Plume, founder
of the Plumean Professorship at Cambridge.