UPCHURCH, a parish in the hundred of MILTON, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Chatham, containing 414 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £11, and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome structure, partly in the decorated, and partly in the later style, of English architecture; with a lofty spire, noted as a land-mark, and some remains of stained glass. The parish is bounded on the north by the Medway, where is Otterham creek and quay, at which corn produced in the neighbourhood is shipped for exportation. By the survey made in the reign of Elizabeth, it appears that twelve vessels belonged to this place.