Romney

Romney, NEW, a municipal borough and Cinque Port in the south of Kent, 8 miles SW. of Hythe. It ceased to be a port in the days of Edward, and is not now either on the seashore or on a navigable river. Pop. (1881) 1007; (1891) 1306. Old Romney, a small village, is $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile further inland. New Romney is the capital of the Romney Marsh district of fertile pastures, has a great sheep fair, and is connected with Lydd by a railway line 3 miles long. Of its five churches only one (St Nicholas) remains.