Romney, New, one of the old Cinque Ports (q.v.), in S. Kent, 8 m. SW. of Hythe; the sea has receded from its shores, leaving it no longer a port; as centre of a fine pastoral district it has an important sheep fair; the little village of Old Romney lies 1½ m. inland.
Population (circa 1900) given as 1,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Romney, George * Romola