DAVINGTON, a parish in the hundred of FAVERSHAM, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, | a mile (N.W.) from Faversham, containing 151 inhabitants. The living is a donative, to which T. Bennett, Esq. presented in 1821. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, is principally of Norman architecture, and has a beautifully arched door-way. From the numerous remains found here, this is supposed to have been a Roman station. A priory for Benedictine nuns was founded in 1153, probably by Fulk de Newenham, the revenue of which, in the 17th of Edward III., when the society petitioned to be exempted from the payment of taxeson account of poverty, was only £21. 13. 10; having been entirely deserted, it escheated to the crown in the 27th of Henry VIII.: the remains are considerable, and form an interesting ruin, part having been converted into the parish church. Here is a large powder manufactory.