Note: Hilltop village with a moated castle; now a suburb of Hythe; name is said to derive from the seaside woods at the base of its promontory; stronghold built here in 488 by Aesc, son of Hengist of Kent; Thomas à Becket's murderers supposedly plotted in the castle's great hall; castle restored in the 1930s; the best-preserved parts of the castle date to the time of William Courtenay, who became archbishop of Canterbury in 1390.