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Since 1461, the broad street of this busy little town and much of the countryside around has looked up to the elegant pinnacled tower of St Mildred's.

The church was recorded as being on the site since 1128.

Built on high ground outside the current village centre with views south across the Rother valley, and north and west across the Weald, with the unusual five sweep Sandhurst windmill on the horizon.

Chiddingly church is a lovely building dating from the late 11th or early 12th century.

In the late 1200s the Archbishop of Canterbury established a college here for a master and six canons (priests), which accounts for the large size of this church, and also accounts for the timber framed houses opposite, which were where the master and his canons lived.

A beautiful rural church set in the heart of the beautiful Kent Downs five miles south of Canterbury.

St Thomas a Becket church is mentioned in the Domesday Book and dates from the 12th century which leads many to believe that the church was probably redecated to Thomas a Beckett at a later date.

The mixture of informal path over a little bridge into a churchyard full of trees and shrubs is the perfect introduction to the military looking Norman tower.