Elham, Stelling, Waltham, Bishopsbourne with its literary as well as its architectural treasures, Patrixbourne whose church is one of the most perfect pure Norman pieces in England, Denton, and Wootton, the seat of the Bridges family, that gave us a famous littérateur at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and a great Poet Laureate at the end of it: these are only a sample of the valleyfuls of names that represent a social history to which no writer could do justice in one lifetime.