BORDEN, a parish in the hundred of MILTON, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Sittmgbourne, containing 650 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £ 8. 10., and in the patronage of J. Musgrave, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is an ancient edifice, comprising three aisles and three chancels, with a square tower at the western end: there are some Roman bricks mixed with the flint-stones in the building, and cemented with mortar, in the composition of which pulverized cockle-shells have been used: the chief entrance is under a Saxon, or Norman, arch, and there are similar specimens of architecture in other parts of the edifice. A British coin, and several relics of Roman antiquity, together with a great quantity of round stones, like cannon-balls, have been found in the neighbourhood. Dr. Robert Plot, the natural historian of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire, was born at the manorhouse of Sutton-Baron, in this parish, in 1641, where he died, April 13th, 1696.