BARMING, or Barming (East), a parish in Maidstone district, Kent; on the river Medway, 1 mile NW of East Farleigh r. station, and 2½ WSW of Maidstone. It has a post office, of the name of Barming, under Maidstone. Acres, 749. Real property, £3,170. Pop., 589. Houses, 117. The property is divided among a few. Hops and fruits are richly cultivated; and Kentish rag is quarried. Roman remains have been found near the church. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £598.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a neat edifice, with a cemetery embosomed in fine elms. Mark Noble, the antiquary, was rector; and Christopher Smart, the poet, was a resident.

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