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The Paddock, CANTERBURY, CT4 8BL

The long distance path turns down Lower Lees Road to Chartham Hatch from Long Hill and Chilham.

Public house on Selling Road. Note, writing on pub-sign post 'Use it or lose it', this shows the state of the village pub industry.

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."

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."

A close-up photo of Image At the junction of Cobbs Hill and Long Hill. A black metal sign showing a silhouette picture of an Oast House, a farmer with horse and plough, adorned with pears (on the left) and apples (on the right).

There is a six-way junction at the centre of Old Wives Lees. The green in the middle of the junction sees the village sign with hops and farming featuring. 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."

There is a six-way junction at the centre of Old Wives Lees. The green in the middle of the junction sees the village sign with hops and farming featuring. 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."