IFIELD, a parish in the hundred of TOLTINGTROUGH, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 2 miles (S. by B.) from Gravesend, containing 55 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the exempt deanery of Shoreham, which is in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £4. 7., and in the patronage of H. Edmeads, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, is the smallest in the diocese 5 it was rebuilt in 1596. This village being comprehended in the hamlet of Shinglewell, is usually called Shinglefield-street, it being situated on the line of a Roman road, traces of which are yet visible.