Westcliffe is a village and former
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
, now in the parish of
St. Margaret's At Cliffe, in the
Dover district, in east
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
, England, near
Dover. An alternative spelling is West Cliffe, used on Ordnance Survey maps. In 1931 the parish had a population of 88.
History
The name "Westcliffe" means 'Cliff', the 'west' part later added in relation to adjacent St Margaret's at Cliffe. West Cliffe was recorded in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...
as ''Westclive''. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with St Margaret's at Cliffe and East Langdon.
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Villages in Kent
Former civil parishes in Kent
Dover District
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