STONAR, a parish in the hundred of RINGSLOW, or Isle of THANET, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 1 mile (Nby E.) from Sandvjich, containing 44 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £3. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown, by lapse. The church has been destroyed. It is supposed that the site of this place, in the time of the Romans, was entirely covered with water. On the sea retiring from Ebbs-fleet, it became a common landingplace, at an early period, and, in consequence, a town and port of considerable importance, having, in 1090, so increased, that the seigniory of Stonar was claimed by the citizens of London, as subject to that port. After sustaining repeated injuries from the Danes and other marauders, as well as from inundations of the sea, it began, about the reign of Richard II., to decay. Leland, who wrote in the time of Henry VIII, describes it as " sometime a pretty town," but then "having only the ruin of the church, which some people call Old Sandwich." Abundant remains of former dwellings may be traced, though at present there are not more than four or five inhabited houses. Saltworks are carried on near the site of the church; the produce of which serves all the purposes of bay salt.