HYTHE (WEST), a parish in Romney-Marsh district, Kent; on the coast, 2¼ miles S of Westonhanger r. station, and 2½ W of Hythe. Post town, Hythe. Acres. 1, 423; of which 170 are water. Pop., 130. Houses, 31. The property is divided among a few. A village or town here was, more properly than Hythe, the original cinque port of Hythe; was a place of commerce and resort in the time of Edward the Confessor; and ceased to be a port and a town in consequence of the recession of the sea. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Lympne, in the diocese of Canterbury. The church has long been in ruins.

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