A Heritage Centre for the villages of Little Chart and Pluckley.

About Us

The Centre is situated in St Nicholas Church in Pluckley and was set up by Pluckley Parochial Church Council with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2018. 

Along with displays and information panels that will make your visit to Pluckley more interesting, we also hold the archive for Pluckley and Little Chart villages. Please contact us if you are planning a visit to check we are open.

 We are a small centre run by volunteers so if you are local and can offer some time to help us archive or with tours of the village etc do let us know. If you have any items that might be of interest do get in touch. You can donate, lend or let us copy or photograph the items for our archive.
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Opening Hours

Opening Hours
We are open on Fridays between 1pm-3pm.

The Church is open 9am to dusk so you can come and look at the displays any day of the week. 

If you would like to talk to a member of the team or look at something in the archive then if possible  let us know if you are coming. That way we can arrange not to have too many visitors to help with research at a time.

Exciting News

Constables, Charters and Kent:

 New material in Kent Archives

The Kent History and Archives Centre jointly hosted a conference with Kent University to celebrate two exciting new additions to its collections in May.


First, an illuminated custumal of feudal obligations to Dover Castle and secondly (and excitedly for the villages of Pluckley and Little Chart) Thomas Godfrey-Faussett’s collection of 85 charters and deeds relating to Pluckley, Little Chart, Upper and Lower Hardres, Barham etc dating from 1264 onwards. These were purchased with the aid of a very generous grant from the Friends of National Libraries.



The documents were all once part of Sir Edward Dering's vast collection of documents and will be a great resource for people trying to discover the history of the village, its people and buildings. The village is so lucky to have so many documents associated with it's history that have survived.




The Archive regularly host free talks so do give them your email if you want to be notified of events. They have the records that deal with the village and the website is where you need to book if you want to go in. They have a searchable database so you can see what they hold.   


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Edward Dering, the renound antiquarian and great collector of documents.