HACKINGTON, otherwise ST-STEPHENS, a parish in the hundred of WESTGATE, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 1 mile (N.) from Canterbury, containing 349 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £ 5. 2. 3., and in the patronage of the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The church is dedicated to St. Stephen. In the church-yard, in 1187, Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, began a chapel in honour of St. Stephen and St. Thomas of Canterbury, wherein he proposed to found a noble college for forty secular priests, the king and all his suffragan bishops to have a prebend, each worth forty marks a year; but the year after he had settled some secularcanons at the place, the pope, at the instance of the monies at Christ Church, ordered the chapel to be levelled with the ground. The bishop erected a chapel in honour of St. Thomas a Becket at the foot of St. Thomas hill.