ALLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of LARKFIELD,
lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, if mile
(N. N. W.) from Maidstone, containing 45 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at
£6. 16. 8., endowed with £C200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl
of Romney. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence,
Allington stands on the western side of the Medway,
opposite Aylesford, and was formerly a market-town.
Sir Thomas Wyatt, a distinguished poet in the reign of
Henry VIII., was born at Allington castle, the remains
of which have been converted into a farm-house.