It is bypassed by the M2 to the south and traverses the historic A2, on the route of the Roman road of Watling Street.

[2] The manor was previously owned by Odo, Earl of Kent (as the Bishop of Bayeux), at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.

Then it passed to John de Campania (of Newenham), with a rent of 30 shillings going to Rochester Castle.

The church lies along a straight east–west footpath from the Court leading to a large house named Provender, listed grade II* and dating to the 16th century.

It contains a bibliologically inspired pictorial white memorial to Rt Hon Mary Elizabeth, Lady Sondes d.1818[8] and one to George Finch who died in 1584.

Once named in Latin deeds as 'Bocheland' (book land), the Manor of Buckland was also under the control of Odo, Earl of Kent.

Stone, or Stone-next-Faversham, found close to Ospringe in the east has just a cottage, a farm and its Anglo-Saxon chapel, which is a scheduled ancient monument.

[12] English Heritage's Maison Dieu (in Ospringe), is a museum, housing archaeological finds from the chapel and from the Roman cemetery of the town of Durolevum, the westerly predecessor to Faversham.