Chilham
| Chilham | ||||
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 Chilham Castle |
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| Basic data | ||||
| status | Village and Civil Parish | |||
| surface | 17.86 km² | |||
| population | 1634 (as of 2011) | |||
| Ceremony county | Kent | |||
| District | Borough of Ashford | |||
| Constituency | Ashford | |||
Chilham is a village and civil parish in Kent in south east England .
The village with small cottages , half-timbered houses and a small village green is just 10 km south of Canterbury . The landscaped park of Chilham Castle was 1777 by Lancelot "Capability" Brown created.
At Chilham is Julliberrie's Grave , a Long Barrow , a mound of earth typical of eastern England .
In Chilham there was a branch of the Bunce Court School from neighboring Otterden between the second half of 1939 and March 1940 .
Web links
Commons : Chilham - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Chilham Travel Guide
- Chilham in: The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7. Originally published by W. Bristow, Canterbury, 1798.
- Chilham at kentarchaeology.org.uk
- Friends of St Mary's Chilham (Engl.)
- Website about Chilham Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanna Bergas: Fifteen Years - Lived among, With and For Refugee Children , Palo Alto, California 1979 PDF of Fifteen Years available online.
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ' N , 0 ° 58' E