The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 BUCKLAND 241 himself and his kingdom in the Templars' Church on Dover Heights. Where the Dour crosses the road at Buckland the open highway ends. 'B^^^ ^:^^'' 0 ^ '^L ^'' ST. EADIGUND'S ABBEY. Buckland church was enlarged in 1880, and it was then found necessary to move the ancient yew, reputed to be over a thousand years old, in the churchyard. A writer calling himself ' Old Humphrey ' mentions the tree in his Country Strolls, 1841 :—'' The tree is hollow, and time and the elements hav
The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 BUCKLAND 241 himself and his kingdom in the Templars' Church on Dover Heights. Where the Dour crosses the road at Buckland the open highway ends. 'B^^^ ^:^^'' 0 ^ '^L ^'' ST. EADIGUND'S ABBEY. Buckland church was enlarged in 1880, and it was then found necessary to move the ancient yew, reputed to be over a thousand years old, in the churchyard. A writer calling himself ' Old Humphrey ' mentions the tree in his Country Strolls, 1841 :—'' The tree is hollow, and time and the elements have writhed it into fantastic shapes. I can see, or fancy I can see, snakes and dragons in its twisted branches.' It was not without some anxiety that the people of Buckland viewed the proposed removal by some sixty feet of a tree for which they have much affection.
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