STOUTING, a parish in the hundred of STOUTING,
lathe of SHEPWAY, county of KENT, 8 miles (E. by S.);
from Ashford, containing 236 inhabitants. The livingis
a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury,
rated in the king's books at £7. 17. 11., and in.
the patronage of the Rev. Jacob Geo. Wrench, D.C.L.'
The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally inthe
early style of English architecture. The parish is;
bounded on the east by the Roman Stane-street, and a
branch of the river Stour rises here. In the neighbourhood
is a mound overgrown with wood, around which
was a double moat, but the origin of it is now buried
in obscurity. Some urns and Roman coins have been
discovered in this parish.