[4] The first Roman advance in the conquest of Britain may have crossed the River Medway near Snodland, although there are other possible locations.

The supposed crossing place is marked by a memorial on the opposite side of the river from Snodland, close to Burham.

The firm of Poynder and Medlicott began quarrying on the Snodland-Halling border in the early 19th century and the company was taken over by William Lee in 1846.

New manufacturing techniques and the coming of the railway in the 1850s improved paper production from five to 70 tons a week.

Leybourne Lakes Country Park was created from disused gravel pits to the south that have been flooded and landscaped to make fishing and wildlife lakes;[7] across the river is the Burham Marsh nature reserve, a tidal reed bed.

[8] The two companies were then merged under the name South East Water, whilst retaining the headquarters facilities in Rocfort Road.

Since 1986, Snodland has been twinned with Moyeuvre-Grande, a town of similar size, located near Metz in North East France.

[10] Aside from the churches (see below), Woodlands Farmhouse on Constitution Hill is a Grade II* listed building dating to the early-mid 15th century.

The M20 motorway junction 4 is two miles south of the town and affords good access to London and the Channel Ports.

[15] There are peak-time services via HS1 direct to St Pancras; otherwise, passengers for London need to change at Strood or Maidstone Barracks/Maidstone East.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC South East and ITV Meridian.

It dates from the early 12th century but has spent much of its life as a farm building and is currently in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

In the late 1940s, the defunct Grand Picture Palace cinema on Holborough Road was converted into the Catholic Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, but it was closed in 2007 and redeveloped.

[28] Snodland Community Cricket Club play at Rectory Meadow, just off Rocfort Road car park.

The postal pioneer Thomas Fletcher Waghorn[29] (1800–50), shortened the mail route to India from three months to between 35 and 45 days by going through the Egyptian desert.

The white reggae singer Judge Dread (real name Alex Hughes, 1945–98) lived in Snodland.