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The rendered façade of this tall narrow building hides a medieval timber-framed house, owned in 1489 by John Bishop.

No. 125 includes another late-medieval building, encased in stone in the 18th century or earlier.

Behind the Georgian façade is one of the most important medieval houses in Burford.

This impressive late medieval house may have been owned in 1552 by the clothier Edmund Silvester: his descendants certainly owned it in the early 1

Halling High Street looking north c.1910. Although the shops on the left have gone, the buildings remain.

Burham, Scarborough Terrace (visible on the skyline), looking north. The chalk pit has already fallen into disuse.

Quarrying chalk during the nineteenth century was labour intensive work requiring many men.

Earliest records of Non-Conformists worshipping in Snodland are certificates granting meeting-houses in various homes from 1816.

Rochester Road, Burham, viewed from the south towards Rochester.

Burham was once a distinct, seperated community, having very different traditions and peculiarities from it's neighbouring villages, despite their

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