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Hougham (St. Lawrence)

HOUGHAM (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Dovor, partly in the hundred of Bewsborough, lathe of St. Augustine, and partly within the jurisdiction of the cinque-port liberty of Dovor, E. division of Kent; comprising a small part of the town of Dovor, and containing 1311 inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the east by high chalk cliffs, which command a fine view of the hills of Boulogne, across the Channel. It comprises 2939 acres, whereof 280 are waste or common, and 94 in wood; the soil is clay, resting upon chalk. A branch of the river Stour, and the South-Eastern railway, pass through. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 13. 4.; patron and appropriator, the Archbishop of Canterbury: the vicarial tithes have been commuted for £175. 6., and the glebe contains 7½ acres; the appropriate have been commuted for £532, and the glebe contains 98 acres. The church is principally in the early English style. In the Dovor part of the parish is a church dedicated to Christ, the living of which is in the gift of Trustees. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Many persons who died of the plague, in 1665, were buried here, at a place called the Graves.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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