Description
River, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Dour, adjacent to Kearsney station on the L.C. & D.R., and 2 miles NW from Dover. Acreage of the civil parish, 1194; population, 758; of the ecclesiastical, 1489. Kearsney Abbey, Woodside, and Old Park are chief residences. There are paper and corn mills. The living is a vicarage, united with Guston, in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £306. Patron, the Archbishop. The church was rebuilt in 1832, and has been restored. There is a large parish-room with small rooms attached, built in 1892.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
