PATRIXBOURNE, a parish in the hundred of BRIDGE-and-PETHAM, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Canterbury, containing 268 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the curacy of Bridge annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £5.7.3., and in the patronage of E. Taylor, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally in the Norman style, but there are some portions of later date. A priory of Augustine canons, a cell to the abbey of Beaulieu in Normandy, was founded here about 1200, and in 1399, or the year following, was made subject to the priory of Merton, in Surrey.