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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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Buckland Parish Dover Poor Law Union/Registration District Kent Ancient County |
| Place: | Buckland Near Dover |
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