The Star Inn at Old Wives Lees
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The Star Inn at Old Wives Lees
Image: © Marathon Taken: 26 Jan 2023
Sadly this pub is now permanently closed. See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7393533 More information about The Star inn with a list of past licensees from 1841 can be seen at http://www.dover-kent.com/Star-Chilham.html The article includes a photograph from about 1920 which shows the building on the right when it was the village shop. A group of people can be standing in the doorway which is now bricked up. The origin of the name of Old Wives Lees is not clear but in 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Old Wives Lees thus: "OLD-WIVES-LEES, or Oldwoods-Lees, a place in the N E of Kent; 4¼ miles S W of Canterbury. An annual race, on 19 May, by young maids and bachelors, was instituted here by Sir D. Digges of Chilham."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.255797
Longitude
0.967445