History : Ghosts

There was a period of time at the beginning of the 15^{th century when Tythes (church tax) raised in Chilham went to the French via the Benedictine Abbey in Flanders for their wars against the British. This was suppressed by Henry V in 1415. A ghost of a hooded monk with a flickering candle is reported to emerge into the churchyard on stormy nights. He meets a skeleton horse and then retires backwards into a door on the churchyard wall and both vanish.}

The White Horse Public House found in the square was built in 1422 in the reign of Henry V, was originally a thatched farmhouse and the in th 16th and 17th centuries served as the Vicarage. Samson Hieron vicar of the parish in 1661 elected by the local people during the English Civil War period until being thrown our on the return of the Royalists in 1662. The benign ghost of Samson Hieron is said to still warm himself at the inglenook fireplace in the White Horse located at the entrance to the Church drive./monk