HYTHE, a municipal and parliamentary borough of Kent, England, and one of the original Cinque Ports, is beautifully situated at the foot of a steep cliff near the eastern extremity of Romney Marsh, about half a mile from the sea, on a branch line of the South-Eastern Railway, 66 miles E.S.E. of London, 16 S.W. of Dover, and 5 W. of Folkestone. It consists principally of one long handsome street running parallel with the shore. On the slope of the hill above the town stands the fine old church of St Leonard, partly Late Norman and partly Early English, with a tower rebuilt about 1750. In a vault under the chancel there is a collection of human skulls and bones supposed to be the remains of ancient Britons and Saxons slain in a battle which took place near Hythe in 456. Of late the church has been undergoing restoration at a considerable cost, and it is proposed to complete the chancel, which was originally left unfinished. At Lympne there are the remains of a Roman castmm, and excavations made some years ago brought to light many interesting remains of the old Roman town, the Portus Lemanus. The site of the castrum is now occupied by the fine old castellated mansion of Studfall Castle, at one time the residence of the archdeacons of Canterbury, but at present used as a farm-house. Norman portions of the Lympne church originally built by Archbishop Lanfranc are still standing; and a small distance east from it is Shipway or Shepway Cross, where the great assemblies relating to the Cinque Ports used to be held until they were removed to Romney. Several bronze implements and weapons were discovered near Hythe in 1873, during the excavation of the railway line from Hythe to Sandgate. A mile north from Hythe is Saltwood Castle, of very ancient origin, but rebuilt in the time ...