WICKHAM (EAST), a parish in the hundred of
LESSNESS, lathe of BUTTON at HONE, county of KENT,
3 miles (W. N. W.) from Crayford, containing 317 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of Plumstead, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Rochester. The church is dedicated to St.
Michael. Part of the lands and utithes in East Wickham
were given, hy the famous Admiral, Sir John
Hawkins, in the reign of Elizabeth, to the hospital
for distressed mariners, founded by him at Chatham,
to which they still belong. William Forster, in 1727,
gave lands in trust, among other purposes, to erect
and endow a school; the income is £68 a year, for
which thirty-three boys and nineteen girls are educated.