It is served by the A228, and Cuxton railway station on the Medway Valley Line between Strood and Maidstone.

The mansion was demolished in 1782 and only an outlying granary, now a house still bearing the name Whorne's Place, survives in 2011.

In 1610, William Laud was rector of Cuxton; he later became Archbishop of Canterbury under Charles I and was executed by the puritans in 1645 because of his strong royalist loyalties.

[3] A tin chapel from Cuxton was dismantled and re-erected at the Museum of Kent Life, Sandling.

On 10 August 2015, a gang smuggling guns into the UK were filmed by officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) as they unloaded their illicit cargo near Cuxton Marina.

[5] The NCA described the haul of weapons and ammunition seized by its officers as the largest of its kind in the UK.