Editing Dover (section)

==Demography==
In 1800, the year before Britain's first national census, [[Edward Hasted]] (1732–1812) reported that the town had a population of almost 10,000 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63592 |title=Hasted description of Dover |website=British-history.ac.uk |date=29 January 1998 |access-date=26 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810173034/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63592 |archive-date=10 August 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

At the 2001 census, the town of Dover had 28,156 inhabitants, while the population of the whole urban area of Dover, as calculated by the [[Office for National Statistics]], was 39,078 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8271&More=Y |title=KS01 Usual resident population: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas |access-date=8 June 2007 |work=National Statistics |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050311050212/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8271&More=Y |archive-date=11 March 2005 |df=dmy }}</ref>

With the expansion of Dover, many of the outlying ancient villages have been incorporated into the town. Originally the parishes of Dover St. Mary's and Dover St. James, since 1836 Buckland and Charlton have become part Dover, and Maxton (a hamlet to the west), [[River, Kent|River]], [[Kearsney, Kent|Kearsney]], [[Temple Ewell]], and [[Whitfield, Kent|Whitfield]], all to the north of the town centre, are within its conurbation.