TR 24 SE HOUGHAM POLTON 4/76 Stone marking the site of St. Mary's Church (The Polton Stone) II Stone marking site of St. Mary's Church, Polton. C18. About 2 feet high with rounded head. Inscription in simple lettering: Here did Stand the Parish Church of Polton IX mentioned in Domesday Book under the title... The last 2 lines now illegible, but recorded elsewhere as ... of Chenth in the Hundred of Bewsborough The Church still had bequests made to it in 1533, and a curacy in 1563. (See I. Green, Bygone Kent 4, 4 May 1983, p.298). Listing NGR: TR2736640330