WOODCHURCH, a parish in the hundred of
BLACKBOURNE, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 4
miles (EbyN.) from Tenterden, containing 1095 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction
and patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
rated in the king's books at £26.13.4. The church,
dedicated to All Saints, is partly in the early, and partly
in the later, style of English architecture, with a tower
surmounted by a spire; it contains numerous ancient
monuments. There is a place of worship forWesleyan
Methodists. A charity school is supported by subscription
among the inhabitants.