Chilham

So we started making our way and it was heading towards the Canterbury area and it was four males who'd done this armed robbery and it crashed.

just outside of a little village called Chilham in Kent.

And one of the individuals was a little bit injured in that crash, but they all managed to leg it across fields and away.

And we got to this sort of scene of the incident about, it must take us about 20 minutes to get there.

now brother and sister are both sleeping under the grassy sod of the kentish land which they loved so well where the nightingales sing heart-piercing notes in the silence of the early summer night shelter for me and for you my friend there let us settle when both are old and whenever i come to my journey's end there you shall see me laid and blend just one tear with the falling mould CHAPTER XII.

CHILHAM TO HARBLEDOWN.

The pilgrim's way skirted the wooded slopes of Godmersham Park for about a mile, and then entered Chilham Park.

The park is now closed, but the old track lay right across the park and in front of Chilham Castle.

The position of this fortress, overlooking the Valley of the Stour, has made it memorable in English history.

Chilham has been in turn a Roman camp, a Saxon castle, and a Norman keep, and has played an eventful part in some of the fiercest struggles of those days.

according to a generally received tradition recorded by camden chillen was the scene of the battle on the river in caesar's second expedition and the british barrow near the stoor popularly known as julliber's grave was believed to be the tomb of the roman tribune julius liberius although as a matter of fact it contains no sepulchral remains In the second century, Chilham is said to have been the home of that traditional personage, the Christian king Lucius, and in Saxon days of the chief Scylla.

The castle was strongly fortified to resist the invasion of the Danes, by whom it was repeatedly attacked.