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Elham beat off stiff competition for the title of Kent Village of the year 2011 organised by Action with Communities in Rural Kent.
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Elham resident Les Ames in action for England against the West Indies in 1939. He was one of the finer wicketkeeper - batsmen and played for Kent CCC.
The Abbot's Fireside is one of the older buildings in the village and probably dates back to the mid fifteenth century.
Audrey Hepburn (neé Rushton) lived in Orchard Cottage (Five Bells) for five years in her childhood (1935-1940) and attended the local village schools. She took ballet lessons and dreamed of becoming a prima ballerina. I wonder what became of her?
Dave Lee opens Elham's brand new playground with a sensory garden and a pretty flower meadow created by the Play for Elham charity. 21st November 2010
The machine breaking that led to the riots of August 1830 onwards started in the Elham Parish, writes our historian Derek Boughton, who has made a lifetime's study of the subject.
Elham residents were prominent in the gangs that sought out the new fangled threshing machines and destroyed them. Some of them cost the not inconsiderable sum for the day of £100. Full Story
Former Elham resident Cyril Parkinson was appointed Raffles Professor of History at the newly-established University of Malaya in Singapore. While there, he initiated an important series of historical monographs on the history of Malaya, publishing the very first of the series in 1960. A movement developed in the mid-1950s to establish two campuses, one in Kuala Lumpur and one in Singapore. Parkinson actively attempted to persuade the authorities to avoid dividing the university, but to maintain it to serve both Singapore and Malaya in Johor Bahru. His efforts were unsuccessful and the two campuses were established in 1959. The original Singapore campus, where Parkinson taught, later became the University of Singapore
PUBLICAN'S DEATH—On the 27th ult. a telegram was received at Elham stating that Mr. Arthur Lonsdale Dolby, landlord of the "Rose and Crown" Hotel, Elham, had passed away suddenly at Boulogne, whither be had proceeded (apparently in good health) on the previous day. His wife at once proceeded to France where the interment took place. The late Mr. Dolby took up his residence in Elham a few months ago. Dover Express - Friday 09 September 1921
ELHAM. INQUEST,—An inquest was held on Wednesday by T. T. Delasaux, Esq., county coroner, on the body of Thomas White, who met his death by being knocked down by the rod of a cart. It appeared that a horse and cart was heard to be going very fast along the road on Saturday evening, and upon Mr. Roots, farmer, going in the direction he found the deceased lying in the road. A surgeon was sent for, and upon Mr. Bishop arriving, he discovered that the deceased had received a lacerated wound from the left ear to the left eye down the bone. His blade-bone was fractured, and several of his ribs were found to be broken, and had been driven into the deceased's lungs, which caused his death. The deceased told the surgeon that he thought he should die, and made a statement to the effect that the horses were frightened and ran away. He tried to catch hold of the reins, when the point of one of the rods struck him in the back and knocked him down insensible. The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death." Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 16 October 1875