family held Wittersham, Colonel Heyworth held Palstre, and Mrs Samuel Rutley owned Owley. Amenities The village has an award-winning CAMRA approved public house, The Swan, and a restored white weatherboarded post mill, Stocks Mill. Wittersham housed a key listening post for downed pilots over the channel during the Second World War; all that is left now is a small concrete house and a few craters dotted around from attacks by the Luftwaffe and several doodlebug (V1) strikes. There is a popular and well-attended Community market every Tuesday morning in the Village Hall specialising in organic and local fresh food as well as a variety of other products. Wittersham now has its own dedicated website www.wittersham.org run from within the village with information regarding local groups, businesses, what's on, and Lost & Found. The website is being continually improved and is currently funded by the Wittersham Parish Council. Notable residents (past and present) Lord Alli - media entrepreneur and politician Laurence Alma-Tadema - novelist and poet Thomas Braddock - clergyman and translator lived and died in the village Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell - author who wrote under many pseudonyms, including Marjorie Bowen and Joseph Shearing Gerald Campion - TV actor and club owner Tom Chaplin - Keane singer George Digweed MBE - 16 times World Sporting Shooter Champion Norman Forbes-Robertson - Victorian Shakespearean actor Norman Hackforth - long-time accompanist to Sir Noël Coward. He was also the famous Mystery Voice for the panel game Twenty Questions. James Harris - father of Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris, military engineer, artist and hunter Paul Hutchinson MBE - Services to Royal Navy Mine Hunters Robert Hichens - Edwardian novelist John Howlett - screenwriter and author Laurence Irving - grandson & biographer of the famous Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving William Jowitt - MP, lawyer and Lord Chancellor William Gardner - English coin designer, engraver, calligrapher and writer Alfred Lyttelton - MP, athlete, lawyer and sportsman Violet Markham - Liberal politician and women's activist Dave McKean - illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician Marti Pellow - singer with group Wet Wet Wet Sir Donald Sinden CBE - actor Marc Sinden - film director, actor and West End theatre producer Arthur Symons - Welsh-born Symbolist poet References External links Wittersham Village Website Statistical civil parish overview - map Villages in Kent Villages in the Borough of Ashford Civil parishes in Ashford, Kent