I've based this recipe on Dan Lepard's Short and Sweet suggestion for an easy white loaf. So I've used 400g strong white flour, one sachet of dried yeast, one teaspoon of salt, and 300ml of warm water. As he suggested, I've added 200g of strong cheddar to boost the flavour. I roughly mixed the ingredients together and left the wet scraggy mess for 10 mins before kneading for 5 mins in our food mixer. The resulting dough is very elastic and springy. I am going to leave it for 3 hours as I normally do, although Dan Lepard recommends 2 separate kneads by hand and then leaving for 45 mins on a floured tray. A good tip that I've picked up from him is if you are kneading by hand, to oil hands and board as this does make it a lot easier to get the dough from your hands. 
Deal and bread making or rather milling, has a long history in these parts. The excellent book "Deal Sad Smuggling Town" by Gregory Holyoake tells how the blockades of ports during the Napoleonic wars led to corn ceasing to be imported. The cost of wheat rose dramatically and the working class families who subsisted on a diet of bread, cheese and beer suffered. As the surrounding countryside of Deal was rich in wheat fields, poorer inhabitants learned to be self sufficient. But the main reason for the presence of over 7 windmills in Deal and Walmer was due to the Royal Navy and Merchant Marines, who were anchored near the Downs and would take on flour for fresh bread and biscuits. Some millers took advantage of this market and sold the flour at exceptional prices, leading to complaints from the ship owners. This monoply was crushed through the enlightened approach from the Deal Mayor, Thomas Oakley and a syndicate who in 1787 sold their own flour at a competitive price.There is still a working mill in River, near Dover, which I've yet to find open. But, I hope to do so and will then source a regional bread recipe, perhaps one used by the Navy to supply the sailors.
This bread smells fantastic when cooking, and only needed 30 mins in an oven at 200 degrees centigrade.
