BREDGAR, a parish in the hundred of MILTON, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 3 miles (S. W. by S.) from Sittingbourne, containing 508 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £9, and in the patronage of Sir E. Dering, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is partly of Norman.architecture, and, prior to the dissolution, had a small college attached to it. There is a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists. Eight children are instructed in reading by a schoolmistress, for £5 per annum, arising from an investment in land of £100 given by William Thatcher, in 1718.