The tusk and teeth of a mammoth were excavated in Peters Pit and displayed in Rochester Guildhall Museum.

[3] Oral history suggests that the village was occupied when the Romans arrived, and that they constructed a ford across the Medway.

[4] In the churchyard, is the grave of Walter Burke, who was present on board HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar and the man who held Nelson in his arms as he died.

Wouldham primary school celebrates this connection in several ways, with its four sports teams being named after ships at the Battle of Trafalgar (Victory, Ajax, Sovereign, Britannia), students being assigned into a house named after one of four famous figures at Trafalgar, and by holding an annual event at the nearby church to commemorate Walter Burke.

A narwhal was discovered in the 1940s washed up on the bank of the river,[5] and is documented in the Natural History Museum, London.

The site was obtained by BPCM (Blue Circle) in 1911, who combined operations with the nearby West Kent works.

This was uneconomical compared to the works across the river at Snodland, and Cuxton and Halling, with its rail connection on the Medway Valley line[9] Before 1999, a large area of allotments were situated between the school and the recreation ground.

It includes a new primary school, community centre, playing fields cycle way and riverside esplanade together with a new road bridge across the River Medway.