RIVER, a parish in the hundred of BEWSBOROUGH, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 2 miles (N. W.) from Dovor, containing 701 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 1. 0., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is principally in the early style of English architecture, and has lately received an addition of one hundred and seventy-five sittings, of which one hundred and thirty-five are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £120 towards defraying the expense. Upon a hill on the north side of the parish several tumuli have been opened, each of which contained a skeleton, the head of a spear, and a sword about three feet long and two inches broad.