SITTINGBORN, (Kent) 1 m. from Milton, being a great thoroughfare from Rochester to Canterbury, has many convenient inns; at one of which, viz. the Red-Lion, one Mr. Norwood treated K. Hen. V. and his retinue, at his return from France; when wine was but 2 d. a quart, and every thing else so cheap, that the whose feast cost but 9 s. and 9 d. In the R. of Eliz. this was made a mayor-T. and it once had a Mt. but now, through disuse, it has neither. It has a Fair, however, at Whitsuntide for 3 days, and another of 5 days, beginning at Michaelmas. Here is a small ch. sc. Just by this T. there are the ruins of a fortification, called Bavard-Castle, that was raised by K. Alfred, when he was in pursuit of Hastings, the Dane.