MALLING-WEST, (Kent) 3 m. 1 half S.E. of Wrotham, 25 cm. 29 mm. from London, near a brook that runs into the Medway, had a
nunnery, founded by the Bp. of Rochester in the 11th century, to which he gave the Ch. the T. and St. Leonard's chapel;
and the lady abbess procured of K. Hen. III. the Mt. on S. and its Fairs Aug. 1, Sept. 21, and Nov. 6. Both the T. and the
nunnery were burnt in the R. of K. Rich. I. At the Diss. this T. was given by K. Edw. VI. to Sir Hugh Cartwright, and it
was the late Sir John Reyney's. A free school was founded here, above 100 years ago, by Fran. Tresse of this T. This p.
was anciently taxed, to contribute towards the repair of the 3d arch or pier of Rochester bridge.