BUCKLAND, a parish in the hundred of BEWSBOROUGH,
lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, If
mile (N. W.) from Dovor, containing 693 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, endowed with the vicarial tithes, and
with £12 per annum payable out of the great tithes;
also with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bourn
ty, and £800 parliamentary grant. The church is
dedicated to St. Andrew. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. The river Stour is
crossed- by a neat brick bridge at the village: here
are two large and well-constructed-paper-mills, be-
sides a corn-mill: a fair is held on the 4th of September.
In 1141, an hospital for lepers was founded
within the parish, and dedicated to St. Bartholomew,
but there are not now any vestiges of it; digging near
its site, in 1765, a leaden vessel, filled with silver coins
struck in the reigns of Edward II. and Edward III.,
was discovered.