BOUGHTON-under-BLEAN, a parish in the hundred
of BOUGHTON-under-BLEAN, lathe of SCRAY
county of KENT, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Faversham,
containing 1237 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at
£9. 4. 9. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St.
Paul, contains several ancient monuments: the tower
formerly supported a spire, which fell down about the
close of the sixteenth century. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here are two charity
schools for boys and girls, and an almshouse comprising
two tenements. In 1716, a human skeleton, by the side
of which lay a sword, and a brass coin struck in the
reign of Antoninus Pius, was dug up in the vicinity.
Blean Forest, from which Boughton has obtained its
adjunct, was anciently the haunt of wild boars, wolves,
and other beasts of chace. Boughton hill, about three
quarters of a mile distant, is stated to command a more
extensive prospect than any other hill in the kingdom.