Description
Beaksbourne or Bekesbourne a parish in Kent, on the L.C. & D.R., 65 miles from London, and 2 1/2 SE of Canterbury. It is a member of the Cinque port liberty of Hastings, and has a station on the railway and a post office under Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Bridge. Acreage, 1113; population, 370. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Norman and Early English. It was restored in 1881-89. There is an old palace, formerly belonging to Archbishop Cranmer, and occupied by him, though little of the original house remains.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
