Description
Ewell, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands in a vale a quarter of a mile from Kearsney station on the L.C. & D.R., and near the source of the river Dour, 3 miles NW of Dover. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dover. Acreage, 1602; population, 566. The manor belonged as early as 1185 to the Knights Templars, and it had a commandery of theirs on an eminence about a mile from the village. Portions of the building remained till near the middle of the 18th century, and they occasioned both the village and the parish to be sometimes called Temple Ewell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £137 with residence, and 54 acres of glebe. The church is small, but good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
