 Wye is a busy
and active community in East Kent, England. It
lies five miles from Ashford and twelve miles
from Canterbury, and currently has a population
of about 2300 and an additional 900 students.
There are shops, offices, two garages,
restaurants, three pubs and other accommodation
establishments and a sub-post office. They serve
a wide catchment area, Wye proving popular as a
small shopping centre for many of the surrounding
villages. The village is rightly proud of its
retention of these shops
and businesses which continue to offer the
old fashioned virtues of courtesy and personal
service.Leisure
activities centre around the Village Halls
run by a voluntary management committee. There
are two halls, the smaller one a replacement for
that destroyed in the 1987 hurricane. There is a
football pitch, a children’s playground and
two hard tennis courts. Wye Cricket Club has its
own ground and pavilion.
Nestling at the foot of the North Downs, Wye
lies under the Crown, a huge emblem cut into the
chalk hillside by students of Wye College in 1902
to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII.
Every November on Guy Fawkes’ Night, the
students light a bonfire high on the hill and
outline the Crown with torches carried in
procession from the village.
The Wye area covers several places of
outstanding beauty such as the Devil’s
Kneading Trough, a steep coombe some 260 feet
deep, from which there are breathtaking views
across the countryside to the coast. Wye is the
centre of a walkers paradise with many varied
routes in the Stour Valley and on the North
Downs. There are also many historic buildings and
places of interest in and around the village.
We hope you enjoy your visit to the Wye Web
Site.
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