EYNESFORD, a parish in the hundred of AXTON-DARTFORD-and-WILMINGTON, lathe of SUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 6 miles (S. E.) from Foot's Cray, containing, with the hamlet of CrockinhiU, 1077 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £12.: there is also a sinecure rectory, rated at £12. 16. 8. The Archbishop of. Canterbury appoints therector, and the rector presents to the vicarage.- The church, dedicated to St. Martin, is of early Norman construction, and, though it has been greatly altered by subsequent repairs, still exhibits a very curious ornamented door-way. The Baptists have a place of worship here. There is a school at Crockinhill, for the instruction of the children of this parish, founded by Thomas Palmer, in 1809, and endowed by himself and others; besides this, nine children are sent to the charity school at Tonbridge, on the foundation of Sir Thomas Dyke. Eynesfofd, through which the Darent passes, takes its name from a noted ford on that river, on the east bank of which are the ruins of a castle, supposed to have been erected in the Norman times by a family named De Eysford.