Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EWELL

EWELL, a village and a parish in Dover district, Kent. The village stands in a vale, adjacent to the Canterbury and Dover railway, and near the source of the river Dour, 3 miles NW of Dover; and has a station on the railway and a post office under Dover. The parish comprises 1, 590 acres. Real property, £2, 432. Pop., 429. Houses, 84. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, as early as 1185, to the Knights Templars; and it had a commandery of theirs on an eminence about a mile from the village. Portions of the buildings remained till near the middle of last century; and they occasioned both the village and the parish to be sometimes called Temple-Ewell. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £127. Patron, B. J. Angell, Esq. The church is small and uninteresting, but good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Temple Ewell CP/AP       Dover RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Temple Ewell

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