Alkham Cricket Club is still in existence, having been formed over 150 years ago and home matches are played on village green. The latter is properly known as Vicarage Meadow as it was owned by the church but it was purchased by the parish council in 2003. Some 1400 years ago when the Anglo Saxons settled in Kent they established several homesteads in the valley, the most important being Ealhham which meant a settlement beside a heathen temple. Alkham as it was later known did not appear in the Domesday Book but in 1093 did appear as a subordinate church to Folkestone. In the 12th century Henry II gave the barony of Folkestone to the Averanches and in 1263 the village was described as the Manor of Halcham. Eventually the manors relinquished their claim on people and as freemen the majority of the village worked on the land. Between WWI and WWII Church Alkham, otherwise known as Alkham was extended eastwards and westwards. The first part of the Glebelands estate was built in 1953 and the rest of the estate in 1974. In the early 1960s seven houses were built up Slip Lane on land which had belonged to Halton Court, Norton Farm and Box Tree Cottage. The modern estate in the west of the village was built in the 1990s on farmland, which belonged to Hogbrook Farm. A hundred years ago the majority of parishioners worked on the land within their own parish, but today very few work on the farms. The majority now find employment in the towns and ports of Dover and Folkestone. It is interesting to observe that the population has changed little in number in the last 140 years, whereas the distribution of the age groups has:

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