ALKHAM, a parish in the hundred of FOLKESTONE,
lathe of SHEPWAY, county of KENT, 4 miles (W. by N.)
from Dovor, containing 509 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Capel le Feme
annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury,
rated in the king's books at £11, and in the patronage
of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church,
dedicated to St. Anthony, is partly Norman, and partly
in the early style of English architecture. According
to Domesday-book a church existed here in the time of
Edward the Confessor.