7] The Schoolmaster

The year was about 1920 and the schoolmaster from Smarden made regular weekly trips to Pluckley to meet with Henry Turff, Pluckley school's headmaster. They met in the Black Horse, and over a few drinks they sat and discussed philosophy. Then, one summer, the Smarden teacher went missing. A couple of weeks later, miller Richard Buss taking a short cut home came across his body hanging from one of the bay laurel trees that grew just below the mill.

The trees have long been cut down. The school master's ghost is just another popular tale told to eager ghost hunters looking for a story - no one is recorded to have ever seen any such apparition.