HERNE, a parish in the hundred of BLEANGATE,
lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 5 miles
(N.E. by N.) from Canterbury, containing 1675 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
and patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
rated in the king's books at £20. 16. 3. The church,
dedicated to St. Martin, has a tower and other portions
in the early style of English architecture, with insertions
hi the later and; decorated styles. There is a place of
worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists.
In the channel near the bay, numerous fragments of
Roman earthenware have been found, supposed to be
the vestiges of a cargo of pottery wrecked whilst the
Romans were in Britain. At Herne Sheel is a pleasure
fair on Easter Monday.