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Walmer in Kent County England History and GeographyWALMER, a parish, and a member of the cinque-port liberty of SANDWICH, locally in the hundred of Cornilo, lathe of ST. AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 2 miles (S.) from Deal, containing 1568 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has lately received an addition of three hundred and eighty sittings, of which two hundred and eighty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense. Walmer-street, on the high road from London to Dovor, is neatly built, being interspersed with genteel houses, marine villas, &c., and, partly on account of its convenient situation as regards Dovor and Deal, is much frequented during the season for sea-bathing. It is noted for the salubrity of its air, and for the fine prospects, in its vicinity, over the Downs and the straits of Dovor to the French coast; but chiefly for the celebrated fortress, Walmer Castle, erected by Henry VIII., at the same period with those of Deal and Sandown, for the defence of the coast, and now appropriated to the Lord Warden of the cinque-ports (an office usually held by the first Lord of the Treasury), for whose residence the principal apartments were fitted up a few years ago, and the fosse, at the same time, was converted into a garden. Here are also barracks, but they are partially disused. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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