Bonnington, a parish in East Kent, on the Military Canal, partly in Romney Marsh, 2 miles SSW of Smeeth station on the S.E.R., and 6 1/2 SE by S of Ashford. Hythe is the post town; money order office, Aldington; telegraph office, Mersham. Acreage, 1113 ; population of the civil parish, 163; of the ecclesiastical, including Bilsington, 530. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury, consolidated since 1878 with the vicarage of Bilsington ; net value, £210 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Eumwold, is small, in the Early English style; it was partially restored in 1886, and the churchyard was enlarged in 1890.
