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himself and his kingdom in the Templars' Church on 

 Dover Heights. 



Where the Dour crosses the road at Buckland the 

 open highway ends. 



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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. 



