HAWKHURST, a town in Kent, England, 47 m. S.E. of London, on a branch of the S.R. Pop. (1921) 3,12o. It lies mainly on a ridge above the valley of the Kent Ditch, a tribu tary of the Rother. The neighbouring country is hilly and well wooded, and the church of St. Lawrence, founded from Battle abbey in Sussex, is Decorated and Perpendicular, its east window belonging to the earlier period.