HUCKING, a parish in the hundred of EYHORNE,
lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 7 miles (E. by N.)
from Maidstone, containing 158 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, with the vicarage of Hollingbourn,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury. The
church is dedicated to St. Margaret. The village stands
on the -ridge of a line of chalk hills, and was anciently
called Honkynge, from its elevated situation.