OARE, a parish in the hundred of FAVERSHAM lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 1 mile (N. W. by N.) from Faversham, containing 197 inhabitants. The living is a discharged perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The parish is bounded on the north-east by the Swale, over which there is a ferry to Harty Island.