Dover Poor Law Union, Kent

History
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk

Constituent Parishes
Alkham, Kent Buckland near Dover, Kent Capel-le-Ferne, Kent Charlton by Dover, Kent Coldred, Kent Denton (near Dover), Kent Dover Castle, Kent Dover St James the Apostle, Kent Dover St Mary the Virgin, Kent Dover Trinity, Kent East Cliffe, Kent East Langdon, Kent Guston, Kent Hougham, Kent Hougham-in-Dover, Kent Kingsdown St John, Kent Lydden, Kent Oxney, Kent Ringwould, Kent River, Kent Sibertswold, Kent St Margaret at Cliffe, Kent Temple Ewell, Kent West Cliffe, Kent West Langdon, Kent Whitfield, Kent Wootton, Kent

Records
The Family History Library includes filming of&lt;br&gt;

Admissions and discharges, births, deaths and religious creed registers of the Workhouse at Buckland, 1835-1914&lt;br&gt;Dover Poor Law Union whose records are held at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, England.The workhouse is in the parish of Buckland in the district of Dover. Kent Archives Office reference at date of microfilming (1991) GI Do/WIA 1-19; WIB 1-2; WIC 1; WID 1.&lt;br&gt;

In adddition The Family History Library has microfilm of Parish chest records, 1611-1858 for Dover which were microfilmed at Canterbury Cathedral Archives in 1992 under reference U3/30/4/1, U3/30/8/1-5, U3/30/13/1-3, U3/30/16/1-2, U3/30/18/1-40, U3/30/19/1, U3/30/25/1&lt;br&gt;

See England, Kent, Workhouse Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)