A church is mentioned in the Domesday Book, although nothing appears to survive from that date. There were medieval manors on each side of the River Nailbourne at this point. Eustace held the one nearest the church (now Cobham Court) in the later 12thc and gave his income from the church to the Priory of St Gregory in Canterbury before 1182, but in 1190 William de Bec (family generally called Le Beck locally) disputed this gift. After a hearing in the local ecclesiastical court on 20 February, 1190 (Cartulary of the priory of St Gregory, Canterbury, ed. Audrey M. Woodcock, Camden Third Series v. 88, London, 1956, 39-40) William relinquished his claim for a consideration of 100s.