WHITFIELD, a parish in the hundred of BEWSBOROUGH, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, Sj miles (N. N. W.) from Dovor, containing 207 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £5. 18. 8., and endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.