West Hythe, Kent

Description
Hythe, West, a parish in Kent, on the coast, 2 1/2 miles S of Westonhanger station on the S.E.R., and 2 1/2 W of Hythe; Post town, Hythe. The civil parish of West Hythewas annexed in 1888, part to St Leonards, Hythe, in the Elham union, anA IBBER part to Burmarsh in the Romney nnion. A village or town was here, more properly than Hythe, the original Cinque Port of Hythe, was a place of commerce and resort in the time of Edward the Confessor, and ceased to be a port and a town in consequence of the recession of the sea. The liv ing is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Lympne, in the diocese of Canterbury; value,, £270 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The Norman church has, it is said, been in ruins for 400 years; the inhabitants attend the church at Lympne.