LANGDON (WEST), a parish in the hundred of
BEWSBOROUGH, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of
KENT, 3 miles (N.). from Dovor, containing 86 inhabitants.
The, living is a rectory not in charge, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, endowed with
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. The church, which was dedicated
to St. Mary, is in ruins. An abbey for White
canons, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St.
Thomas the Martyr, was founded here, in 1192, by William
de Auberville, which at the dissolution had a revenue
estimated at £56. 6.