WROTHAM  , an

urban district in the Medway parliamentary division of Kent, England, to m . W. by N. of Maidstone, on the South-Eastern & Chatham railway . Pop . (19o1) 3571 . The church of St George, Early English and later, contains numerous brasses; and near it is the site of a palace of the archbishops of Canterbury, maintained until the time of Archbishop Simon Islip (c . 1350) . S.W. of Wrotham is the village of Ightham, in which is a fine quadrangular moated manor-house, the Mote, in part of the 14th century, but with portions of Tudor dates .