SEASALTER (LIBERTY), a parish in the hundred
of WHITSTABLE, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of
KENT, 5 miles (N. W. by N.) from Canterbury, containing
654 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury,
rated in the king's books at £ 11, endowed with £ 200
private benefaction, and £300 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church
is dedicated to St. Alphage. Mrs. Frances Fagg, in 1794,
bequeathed £800 three per cents, for the support of a
school, built by subscription, in which seventeen children
are educated. On the sea-shore is an extensive
oyster bed, called the Pollard, belonging to the Dean
and Chapter of Canterbury, who let it to a certain
number of dredger-men, parishioners. Four annual
fairs were held here, but they have been long discontinued.