RUMNEY-OLD, (Kent) 1 m. and half W. of New-Rumney, of which Cinque-Port it is a member and appendage, was once a large T.
with 12 wards, 5 Chs. a priory, and a hos. and had a safe and commodious haven, when the sea came so close to it, that
ships used to anchor in one of the Ch.-yards; but the sea deserted it in the R. of Edw. I. and it has now but one Ch. It
is also said by Kilburn and Lambard, that by a storm here on the 23d of Nov. 1334, above 300 windmills and houses were
carried away; which, together with the withdrawing of the sea, so impoverished the place, that it could never recover it.