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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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Censuses for outlying communities in the parish will be rolled out gradually. Check out the stats page for interesting facts and
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trivia about the village. We still need your help so please send us any information relating to Elham that may be of interest.
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Les Ames hits out
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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.
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Abbot's Fireside c 1450
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The Abbot's Fireside is one of the older buildings in the village and probably dates back to the mid fifteenth century.
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Audrey attends school
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Audrey Hepburn (left) 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?
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George V Playing Field
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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
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Swing Riots of 1830
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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.
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DEATH OF Mr. DANZY CRESSWELL
1889
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A well. known inhabitant of Elharn passed away last week in the person of “Dr. Cresswell." Although he had no diploma, yet he had a most extensive practice, among farmers, and labouring classes. His reputation reached every part of East Kent, and some astonishing cures have been reported under his treatment. Such was his reputation for skill, that several held his abilities in great reverence, and would trust in no other than Dr. Cresswell, who was in many things a most eccentric man. A large number who placed implicit faith in his skill will mourn his loss.
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 13 April 1889
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New Inn
1699
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Probate inventory of Mary Atwells, widow, 13 April 1699, inventory total £140-8-?. Six bedrooms, all with feather beds (that in the great chamber valued at £7), parlour, hall, brewhouse, bar-room, cellars, kitchen, lower parlour, kitchen parlour, stable. Half hogshead of wine, 6 bunns of strong beer, bottles, mugs, glasses, 2 gross of tobacco pipes.
CKS: PRC 11/35/5
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SUICIDE OF MR. BEATTIE
1859
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Considerable surprise, and not less regret, was caused among every class of the inhabbitants on Monday, by the news that Mr. Beattie a medical gentlemen, long resident in the place, had poisoned himself by taking a large quantity of Prussic acid. The deceased was under 40 years of age, and no cause for the act can be given by his relatives and friends, except a depression of spirits which they had witnessed in him during the last six months. An inquest was held the next day, and the following witnesses called - Sarah Carswell, of Elham, said that she was in the ser-vice of deceased as allworks, and had been so for seven years. He dined at about one o'clock yesterday morning. Miss Godden and the wife of the deceased dined with him, and witness waited upon them. She did not observe anything particularly strange in his conduct. He seemed perfectly well at dinner, and had not been ill to her knowledge. At about half-past one she removed the dining-things, and she believed that deceased then left the house. About three o'clock she went into the dining-room, and saw the deceased lying on the sofa in the state in which the jury had just viewed his body. He was then breathing very short, and he died at twenty minutes before four, but she did not know from what cause. He had seemed to her very low for the last few days. Mary Godden, of Bristol, in Somerset, said she had been staying at the house of the deceased for the last two or three months, and during the whole of that time he had seemed to her very dejected and melancholy, he took but little dinner yesterday, and complained of a swimming in his head. He had told witness and his wife that he feared he should have a fit. Mr. D. S. Cresswell, of Elham, assistant to the late deceased, said that he had been in his service for the last ten years. Yesterday afternoon he went into his house at about three in the afternoon, and found deceased lying on the sofa in the drawing-room, breathless and pulseless. He found the bottle now produced under the head of the said sofa. Last Saturday it contained an ounce and a half of diluted Prussic acid. From the appearance of the deceased, and other circumstances, he was led to believe that lie died by taking that poison. For the last six months deceased bad been at times very low and melancholy. The jury retained a verdict of "Temporary Insanity."
Kentish Gazette 1st February 1859
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