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Alkham is, ecclesiastically, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Dover. The church is named for St. Anthony of Panniers with registers commencing 1558. Alkham is a parish in Dover district, Kent; 3 miles southwest of Ewell rail station, and 4 miles west of Dover. Post town, Ewell under Dover. Acres, 3,200. Real property in 1860, £3,567. Population in 1861, 520. Houses, 102. The property is much subdivided. A nailbourne here breaks out occasionally with such "store of water as would carry a vessel of considerable burden". The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Capel-le-Ferne, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £152. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is partly Norman, partly early English, and in very good condition. Reindein House, contiguous to Alkham, is extra-parochial.1 1 John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870). |
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