The hamlet is north of Bapchild (where at the 2011 Census the population was included), close to Murston Marshes beside the Swale.

This being granted, he cut the whole hide into small thongs (long, thin strips, generally of sturdy fiber or leather, typically used for binding), and inclosed within them a space of ground, this was large enough to contain a castle, which he accordingly built on it, and named it Thwang-ceastre (i. e. Thong-castle).

[1] Leland also records a poor hospital called Pokeshaulle (during King Richard III of England's reign).

After Odo's trial for fraud, the lands were then granted to 'Hugh de Port' (an English feudal barony) for the defence of Dover Castle.

When he died at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, the manor was granted by King Henry VI to Thomas Browne, esquire of Beechworth Castle.

One owner in 1444, Sir William Cromer (a High Sheriff of Kent)[1] This survives as the Grade II listed Cheke Court.

[2] Also the estate of Newburgh, commonly called Newbarrow (which was on the southern portion of the parish (close to Lynsted).