WATERINGBURY, a parish (formerly a market-town) in the hundred of TWYFORD, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Maidstone, containing 915 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese Of Rochester, rated in the Icing's books at £5, endowed with £ 200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, formerly exhibited a profusion of stained glass, with portraits of Edward III. and his consort Philippa. On a monument in the cemetery, to the memory of Sir Oliver Style, Bart., it is recorded that, in the height of an entertainment given to a party of his friends at Smyrna, every individual, himself excepted, perished by an earthquake. In the neighbourhood of the village are several gentlemen's seats.