Bicknor (anciently Bykenore), a parish in Kent, 3 1/2 miles SSW of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R., and 7 ENE of Maidstone. Acreage, 633; population of the civil parish, 53 ; of the ecclesiastical, 203. Post town, Sittingbourne ; money order office, Bredgar; telegraph office, Hollingbourne. The living is a vicarage, with Huckinge, in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £210 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is small, and very Early Norman. It was thoroughly restored in 1860-61.
