STODMARSH, (Kent) near the Stour, 5 m. N. E. from Canterbury. Its manor once bel. to the revenue of the Saxon Ks. of Kent,
till K. Lothair settled it on St. Austin's-Abbey; but at the Diss. Hen. VIII. granted it to John Masters, by whose
grandaughter it went in marriage to Will. Courthop, from whom it descended to his son, &c. The vulgar call this place
Studmarsh; and some think the Saxon Ks. had their Studs of horses here.