WINGHAM, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Kent. The village stands 2¼ miles NNE of Adisham r. station, and 6 E by S of Canterbury; was the meeting-place, in the 23d year of Edward I., of the clergy for sending members to parliament; was once a market-town; gives the title of Baron to Farl Cowper; is a seat of petty-sessions; and has a post-office‡ under Sandwich, an inn, and fairs on 12 May and 12 Nov. The parish comprises 2,641 acres. Real property, £7,872. Pop., 1,060. Houses, 236. The manor belongs to Sir H.Oxenden, Bart. A palace of the archbishops of Canterbury stood here; and was visited by Edward I., Edward II., and Edward III. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £114.* Patron, N. Bridges, Esq. The church is decorated and later English; has a tower and spire; and was once collegiate. There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £5. Bishop Hen de Wengeham was a native. -The sub-district contains six parishes and a part, and is in Eastry district. Acres, 8,447. Pop., 2,878. Houses, 619.-The hundred contains 5 parishes, and is in St. Augustine lathe. Acres, 16,467. Pop. in 1851, 4,702. house s, 926.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))