The landscape of the area itself is the edge of a well-drained plain, with the lowest slopes of the Kent Downs to the north-west.

[2] References to Pluckley can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it was a more significant settlement than the now considerably larger town of Ashford.

The Dering Chapel, separated from the rest of the church by two screens and found at the east end of the south aisle, was built in 1475.

The consensus of Shakespeare scholars is that the Dering MS represents a redaction prepared around 1613, perhaps for family or amateur theatrics.

Other reputed hauntings include a ghostly monk, a phantom highwayman and a gypsy woman, called Susan Richardson, who died in mysterious circumstances.

[5] The ITV drama series, The Darling Buds of May, was filmed in the village (doubling for Sidcup) in the early 1990s.