RIVER, a village and a parish in Dover district, Kent. The village stands on the river Dour, adjacent to the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, 1 mile S E of Ewell r. station, and 2¼ N W of Dover; is picturesque and old-fashioned; and has a post-office under Dover. The parish comprises 1, 181 acres. Real property, £3, 483. Pop., 445. Houses, 102. The property is divided among a few. Kearsney Abbey, Old Park, and Archers Court are chief residences. There are paper and cornmills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. . Value, £180.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was rebuilt in 1832.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))