High Halden is a village on the A28 road between Ashford and Tenterden, 3 miles (5 km) north of the latter town.
A very large quantity, fifty tons, of oak was used as the material to build the tower and spire of the 10th–14th-century church, St Mary the Virgin, in 1470–1490. The large pub, The Chequers on the Green, circa 1620, is known to have been used by smugglers and the various gangs such as the "Hawkhurst and Cranbrook gangs" that were active in the mid-18th century. The parish is recorded in the Domesday Book and parts of a Norman manor house can be seen at Tiffenden Farm
The village green, opposite the Chequers, has a magnificent tree at its' heart. It is particularly glorious in Autumn
The green also hosts the village beacon, and the main village bus stop, which at times of celebration or remembrance, takes on a dignity of its' own.
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