BOUGHTON-MONCHELSEA, a parish in the hundred of EYHORNE, and extending into the hundred of Maidstone, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Maidstone, containing 828 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The parish is intersected by a ridge of hills, the summit of which forms the northern boundary of the Weald of Kent, and on the southern declivity of which there are quarries of rag-stone.