About Wickhambreaux
Wickhambreaux, also known locally as Wickham, is a small, pretty Kent village with a tree-lined green at its centre. On the west side of the green is a tall white clap-board mill with a water wheel, located on the Lesser (or Little) Stour. The mill and village are featured in the 1944 Powell and Pressburger film "A Canterbury Tale". 
A former public house in the village was called the Hooden Horse, after one of the characters in the local tradition of "hoodening". During December, farm labourers would go from door to door, trying to collect funds for an annual Christmas feast. The practice died out at the turn of the century, but characters such as the horse, the rider and "Molly" can still be seen in current Morris Dancing. 
There is an old country "counting-out" rhyme about our village and its neighbour Ickham, which goes as follows:Ickham, pickham,
Penny Wickham,
Cockaloram jay,
Eggs, butter, cheese, bread,
Hick, stick, stone dead!
Wickhambreaux was one of the Kent Estates of Princess Joan Plantagenet, the original "Fair Maid of Kent", who visited the village in 1381. Joan was wooed and won by Edward, the Black Prince, and married with great pomp at Windsor. She was the Princess Diana of her day, so adored that even Wat Tyler's rebels, who had marched on London, not only let her through unscathed, but saluted her with kisses. 
The Church of St. Andrew is set on the edge of the village green. It features an unusual East Window. The glasswork is Art Nouveau, and unlike most English glass, is opaque. Commissioned in the United States, it is signed by Arild Rosenkrantz and dated 1896. The window was donated to the church by the son of the Countess de Galletin, who is buried in the churchyard here.