Stockbury is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England.

[1] In 1800, Edward Hasted noted, it was called in the Domesday survey, Stochingeberge, in later records, Stockesburie, and then Stockbury.

[2] Most of the parish is on a valley (between Key Street, Sittingbourne and Detling Hill, Maidstone).

[2] On St. Mary Magdalen's day, 22 July, there used to be a pedlars fair near the Three Squirrels public house.

[3] The parish church, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, is a Grade I listed building and the adjacent ringwork is a scheduled monument.