The churchyard contains a monument to parishioners killed in the nearby Battle of Bossenden Wood in 1838, said to be the last armed uprising on British soil.

In 1884 it was described as a beer house, that is a low rent drinking den, licensed by the Beerhouse Act 1830.

There was also regular deliveries by a milk float and a weekly visit from a coal man and the Library van.

They killed a policeman and then six of them were then shot, including Courtney or John Tom which was his real name, in woods nearby.

Goodwin ran the Dove and John Spratt lived in what is now called ‘The Old Post Office.’ Waterham is a hamlet in the borough of Swale in Kent, England.

Author Russell Hoban repurposes Dargate as "Dog Et" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker.