PEMBURY, a parish in the hundred of WASHLINGSTONE,. lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 3 miles (S. E.; from Tunbridge, containing 891 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £6. 8. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. S. S. Woodgate. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has lately received an addition of sixty free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £30 towards defraying the expense. Several small streams, tributary to the Medway, run through the parish. An almshouse for six poor blind persons was erected, in 1716, by Charles Selby, in pursuance of the will of Charles Amherst, who previously, in 1702, bequeathed a rentcharge of £213 for its maintenance.