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Chilham in Kent County England History and GeographyCHILHAM, a parish in the hundred of FELBOROUGH, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 6½ miles (W.S.W.) from Canterbury, containing 1025 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage with the curacy of Moldash, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £13. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Lord of the Manor. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a spacious cruciform structure, exhibiting portions in various styles of architecture, of which the early English predominates, and some painted glass; it contains several sepulchral memorials, the principal of which are the sumptuous mausoleum of the Colebrooks, erected in 1755, on the site of an ancient chantry-chapel, and that of Sir Dudley Digges, of earlier date, with his splendid monument in the centre. Here are eight almshouses, which have been converted into a poor-house. Chilham was formerly a market town, and has still an annual cattle fair on the 8th of November: the river Stour flows through the parish. It is supposed to have been a post of the ancient Britons, and afterwards a military station of the Romans, there being evident proofs of the latter in the discovery of coins, foundations of houses, and other remains. The castle is of great antiquity, and was a strong fortress and palace of the kings of Kent, till destroyed by the Danes in the middle of the ninth century; but at the Conquest it was rebuilt by one Fulbert, on whom it had been bestowed. The present stately edifice was erected by Sir Dudley Digges, in 1616, and the Norman keep converted into offices; on the north-west side there are traces of a deep fosse, enclosing an area of eight acres. It is asserted that C?sar, on his second invasion, defeated the Britons here, who retreated and intrenched themselves in an adjoining wood, where vestiges of their rude and extensive works are still visible; and on a hill at the south-east side of the river, and east from the castle, is a tumulus termed Julaber's Grave, supposed to be the place of sepulture of Quintus Laberius Durus, a tribune, who was slain in the conflict. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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