Chilham Castle Chilham Castle Chilham Castle is a manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The polygonal keep of the Norman Castle, the oldest building in the village, dates from 1174 and is still inhabited - making it perhaps one of the oldest dwellings in the UK. It was said to have been built for King Henry II. But archaeological excavations carried out in the 1920s suggest that it stands on the foundations of a much older Anglo-Saxon fortification, possibly dating from the seventh century. In June 1320, Chilham Castle
Chilham on the Julliberrie Downs east of the river. Chilham and the surrounding area was one of the locations for much of Powell and Pressburger's 1944 film "A Canterbury Tale". In 1965 it was used for part of the filming of "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders" starring Kim Novak, Leo McKern and Angela Lansbury, and it was also used as a location for the BBC's 2009 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Emma". The village and the castle featured heavily in a fake snow-bound episode of "Agatha Christie's Poirot" called "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" starring David Suchet. The village was made over