Exploring the pubs of Samuel Palmer's "Valley of Vision"

I'm going to Shoreham for the day this Saturday , I told Mrs PBT's, little thinking that my good lady wife was thinking that I meant the seaside town of Shoreham, in West Sussex. I quickly put her right, and explained that I was off to the much smaller and much less well-known Kentish settlement of Shoreham, a delightful village in the idyllic setting of the Darent Valley , which runs in a…