CHERITON, a parish in the hundred of FOLKESTONE,
lathe of SHEPWAY, county of KENT, 2 miles
(W. by N.) from Folkestone, containing, exclusively of
the officers and men employed in the preventive service,
1121 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the
vicarage of Newington united, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at
£ 16.12. 6., and in the patronage of J. D. Brockman, Esq.
The church, dedicated to St Martin, is in the early style
of English architecture.