Bobbing, a parish in Kent, 1 1/2 mile W by N of Milton,. and 2 miles NW of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Sittingbourne. Acreage, 1068; population, 435. The manor belonged to the Savages, and afterwards to the Cliffords. Bobbing Court, the seat of the Savages, is now a ruin. Bobbing Street, about a mile NE of the church, is on a branch of Watling Street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £106. The church is ancient and good, has a tower and spire, and contains a piscina and monuments of the Savages and the Tuftons. Titus Gates was vicar. On Klycol Hill are the Sittingbourne Water-works. The Sittingbourne and Milton Joint Hospital for infectious diseases was erected on Klycol Hill at a cost of £5000.
