PLACE NAMES IN KENT. BY CANON J. W. HORSLEY, _Late Vicar of Detling_. Price 3/6 Net. MAIDSTONE: “South Eastern Gazette” Newspaper Co., Ltd., 4, High Street. 1921. INDEX Page. Place-names of Celtic Origin 9 Roman Names in Kent 17 Teutonic (Jutish) Names in Kent 20 Saxon or Jutish Suffixes 26 Some Common Saxon Elements in Place-names 29 The Northmen in Kent 42 The Islands of Kent 46 Variations in the Spelling of Place-names 49 Ecclesiastical Place-names 52 Place-names from Persons 54 Absurdities in Derivation 57 Our “Tons” and “Stones” 60 Our “Hams” 63 Our “Soles,” “Burys” and “Hithes” 68 Our “Cold Harbours” 71 Anderida 74 Land Divisions of Kent 78 INTRODUCTION. When I was a school boy at Canterbury, in the fifties and sixties, my first interest in philology was evoked by Trench on _The Study of Words_, and by the more elaborate pioneer work, Isaac Taylor’s _Words and Places_, while oral instruction was afforded by the lectures of Dean Alford and the class teaching of my Headmaster, Mitchinson. All four of these leaders having been clergymen, it is perhaps fitting that, at a considerable distance, both of time and of ability, another cleric should attempt to localize some of their general teaching.