Home page of the History of Challock by Deryck Sutton

Kent Village of the year 2004

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In these pages I am attempting to outline the history of Challock using all available documents and with the help of a large number of kind people from both the village and outside. I freely acknowledge their huge contribution without which this history could not be written.
As further facts emerge more detailed history will be added, century by century, decade by decade and can be viewed by clicking on the relevant menus.

Some Highlights.

Freda Cantle
Eric Christie
Amanda Cottrell
Mary Doody(Austen)
Lt Col Field OBE
Fred Hams
Cis Heath
George Marsh
Evelyn McGee
Dot Nightingale
Hugh Potter

Contributors, without whom this History would not have been possible

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BC/AD
800's
1200's
1300's
1400's
1500's
1600's
1800's
1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969

Highlight Item
When did it start
823 First recorded date for the village
Parish Church built
1348 Black Death hits England
Nine Chimneys built
Eastwell Park enclosed
1662 - Hearth Tax
School House built
Picture & List of families
The Great War 1914-1918 - Challock Poem 1917 - Pictures from 1910-1919 period.
Pictures
WW2 starts 1939 Wedding Photo Two articles
Churchills secret army. WW2 ends 1945
Pictures
Pictures

1900

Today

1890

If you are interested in our village History, remember our "Lest we forget" pages for War Memorial information including full lists of men who served in both wars and survived. Lesr we forget

A history of Challock by Deryck M Sutton

As this is a history site, it has been designed around a timeline menu. This enables you to pick a period and see the stories and pictures which apply to that particular time. Some articles can not be easily attached to a definite time and so these are shown here on the home page by their subject.

I am particularly keen to record old documents and photographs before they are perhaps lost forever. Do you have any that I could record?

There is an excellent reference history of Challock on the British History Online website. See: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63422