Description
Stonar, a quondam town and a parish in Kent. The town stood on the river Stour, 1 mile NNE of Sandwich, is supposed to have been the Lapis Tituli of the Romans, was the place of Louis the Dauphin's debarkation in 1216, and of Edward III.'s embarkation in 1359, was destroyed by the French in 1385, figured as a member of Sandwich in 1773, and is now represented only by a farmhouse. Post town, Sandwich. The parish comprises 680 acres; population, 25. There is no church.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
