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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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