WESTENHANGER, or OSTENHANGER, a manor, anciently
a parish, in the parish of STANDFORD,
hundred of SOUTHING, lathe of SHEPWAY, county of
KENT, 3 miles (N. W.) from Hythe. The population is
returned with Standford. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in
the king's books at £7. 12. 6., and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church, which was dedicated to St.
Thomas a Becket, has been long demolished.