EWELL, a parish in the hundred of BEWSBOROUGH,
lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 2 miles
(N.W.) from Dovor, containing 340 inhabitants. Theliving
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and held by sequestration under the Archbishop
of Canterbury. John Angle, Esq. was patron in 1784,-
The church is a small edifice, dedicated to St. Mary and
St. Peter. This village, situated in the beautiful valley
between Barbara Downs and the Land's End, at Dovof,
was formerly called Temple-Ewell, from its having
formed part of the possessions of the Knights Templars
so early as the year 1185; a building on a hill to the
north is still called the Temple Farm; but the remains
of the ancient mansion of the Templars, which
stood near this spot, are said to have been destroyed
about seventy years since. In this parish rises the
principal stream of the river Dour, or Idle, which falls
into the sea at Dovor.