West Peckham

West Peckham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The River Bourne flows through the extreme west of the parish, and formerly powered a paper mill and corn mill. The Wateringbury Stream rises in the parish. Oxon Hoath is the former manor house of West Peckham.

History

At the time of the Domesday survey in 1096, about 29 households were in West Peckham, in the ancient hundred of Littlefield, Lathe of Aylesford, West Kent.
The Domesday entry for East and West Peckham reads:-

Amenities

The Saxon church of St. Dunstan's is open most days to visitors and the church is still actively used.
Dukes Place on Mereworth Road is a Grade I listed timbered hall house, originally built as Preceptory of the Knight's Hospitallers in 1408 by John Culpepper.

Notable people

John Culpeper built Oxon Hoath and established West Peckham Preceptory c1408.
Joyce Culpeper was born at Oxon Hoath.
Richard Watts, merchant and MP for Rochester, was probably born in West Peckham.