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DOVERCOURT

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOVERCOURT , a watering-See also:

place in the See also:Harwich See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, immediately S.W. of Harwich, with a station between Parkeston See also:Quay and Harwich See also:town on the See also:Great Eastern railway, 70 M. N.E. by E. from See also:London. Pop. (1901) 3894. The esplanade and See also:sea-See also:wall front the See also:North Sea, and there is a See also:fine expanse of See also:sand affording See also:good bathing. There is also a chalybeate See also:spa. The scenery of the neighbouring Orwell and See also:Stour estuaries is pleasant. The See also:church, which stands inland in the old See also:village distinguished as Upper Dovercourt, is See also:Early See also:English and later; it formerly possessed a miraculous See also:rood which became an See also:object of See also:pilgrimage of wide repute. It is said to have been stolen and burnt in 1532, three of the four thieves being subsequently taken and hanged.

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