NORTHBOURNE, a village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent. The village stands 2¾ miles W by S of Deal r. station; takes its name from a brook or burnwhich runs to the Stour at Sandwich; and has a post-office under Deal. The parish contains also the hamlets of Finglesham, Little Betshanger, Marley, and West-Street; and includes the detached tract of Tickenhurst. Acres, 3, 628. Rated property, £6, 870. Pop., 890. Houses, 193. The property is subdivided. The manor was given, in 618, by King Eadbald, to the monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury; went, after the dissolution, to the Crown; and belongs now to Sir W.James, Bart. Northbourne Court, was a residence of the monks; is supposed to occupy the site of a palace of King Eadbald; was, for some time, in the possession of the Sandys family; had then famous hanging gardens, parts of which are still preserved; and is now a ruin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £360.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Norman, transition, and early English, large, cruciform, and interesting; has a massive central tower; and contains a triangular-headed piscina, and a splendid monument to Sir Edwin Sandys of 1629. There is a national school.

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