The centre of Wye is 'olde worlde' and older houses and cottages cluster around the Church of SS. Gregory and Martin which was restored in the 15th Century John Kempe who was born in Wye and in 1447 became Archbishop of Canterbury. (A case of local boy makes good!) There used to be a nice "Tea Shop" here for cream teas on a Sunday afternoon but I can't guarantee it's still there. The outskirts of Wye has been built up much more recently and now has the appearance of a small town rather than a village. The Village has always been well known in the area for it's horse racing track which can be seen from the Ashford to Canterbury West railway line.

Wye is particularly well known these days for its Agricultural College which was also originally founded by Archbishop Kempe and is now the rural part of London University. The College is particularly well known for its work on hop cultivation and at nearby Brook maintains a small Agricultural Museum. On the hillside to the East is a large white crown originally carved into the chalk in 1902 by the students of the College to celebrate the Coronation of Edward VII. It is 180ft wide by 180ft high and the shape is made up of 13ft wide trenches. Quite an undertaking! During the Second World War it was covered with brush wood and camouflaged to avoid it being utilized by German pilots as an aid to navigation.

Some other more notable 'children' of Wye were Aphra Behn (bap. 10 July, 1640), the 17th Century novelist and the daughter of a local barber by the name of Johnson, John Sawbridge, a Lord Mayor of London, and his sister, Mrs. Catherine Macauley an early 19th Century historian.

See also: The Church of St. Gregory and St. Martin