Description
Whitfield, a parish in Kent, 1 1/2 mile from Kearsney station on the L.C. & D.R., and 3 1/2 N by W of Dover. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Ewell. Acreage, 913; population, 335. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarages of Waldershare and West Langdon, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £400. The church, dedicated to St Peter, was restored in 1894, and consists of Saxon, Norman, and Early English work. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
