Kent Wildlife Trust manages a nature reserve that is an important stopping place for migratory birds.

After Odo's trial for fraud, the manor passed to the Arnulf Kade who gave it to the Knights Hospitallers.

[3] The village also has two public houses, the Grade II-listed, Shepherd Neame-run Three Mariners Inn[4] and The Castle.

Originally a corn mill, after 1879 it was owned and operated by the Gun Powder Company as part of the Faversham area's explosives industry.

Between 1916 and 1919, the Davington Light Railway ran close to the village and took workers from Oare halt to the main munitions factories at Uplees.