In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Buckland Near Dover like this:
BUCKLAND, a parish in Dover district, Kent: on the river Dour, and on the Canterbury and Dover railway, 1½ mile NW of Dover. Post Town, Dover. Acres, 978. Real property, £6,831. Pop., 2,162. Houses, 377. The property is subdivided. The surface is hilly. There are paper and corn mills. A lepers hospital was founded about 1150. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £139.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Buckland Near Dover through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Buckland Near Dover, in Dover and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21181
Date accessed: 04th May 2024
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