WOODNESBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred
of EASTRY, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT,
1 mile (W. S. W.) from Sandwich, containing 689 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage,in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books
at £ 10. 0. 7., and in the patronage of the Dean and
Chapter of Rochester. The church, dedicated to St.
Mary, is principally in the decorated style of English
architecture. On Woodnesborough hill is a lofty artificial
mount, supposed by some to have been either the
place where the Saxon idol .Woden was worshipped, or
the burial-place of Vortimer; whilst others state, it to
be the Woadnesbeorth of the Saxon Chronicle, and the
scene of the battle between Celred and Ina, kings of
Mercia and the West Saxons, in 715. A fine gold coin,
bearing on one side the figure of an armed warrior and
on the other that of Victory, was found here in 1514. .