HOUGHAM, a parish partly in the hundred of BEWSBOROUGH, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, and partly within the jurisdiction of the Cinque-port liberty of DOVOR, though locally in the hundred of Folkstone, lathe of Shepway, county of KENT, 2 miles (W.S.W.) from Dovor, containing 834 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is principally in the early style of English architecture. This parish is bounded on the east by high chalk cliffs, which command a fine view of the hills of Boulogne, across the channel. A great number of persons who died of the plague in London, in 1665, was buried here, at a place called the Graves.