Alkham is a village and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Dover district

Dover (district)

Dover is a local government district in Kent, England. Dover is its administrative centre. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the boroughs of Deal, Dover, and Sandwich along with Dover Rural District and most of Eastry Rural District...

 of Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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, about five miles west of Dover

Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...

, on the B2060 secondary road. Within the parish are the settlements of Chalksole and Ewell Minnis; the parish population was 691 people (2001 census). Alkham's parish church is dedicated to St Anthony.

The parishes of Alkham and River

River, Kent

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 form the River ward

Wards of the United Kingdom

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 in the Dover local government district.

Alkham has its own cricket team.