Located near the main road from London to Canterbury, the manor house of the Savage family may have been adjacent to the site of the present church. A Georgian house named Bobbing Court may sit on the flint and ragstone foundations of the medieval residence.
A probable performance venue. Sir Arnold Savage's minstrels performed at Boxley Abbey in the late 14th c. and they probably also performed at his residence though household accounts do not survive.
Demolished.
late 12th c. Ralph de Savage purchased the manor from the Molynes family.
1420 Sir Arnold Savage's sister Eleanor, married to William, son of Sir Lewis Clifford (d 1404), inherited the manor and took the property into the Clifford family.
1603 Sir Conyer Clifford's (d 1599) widow Anne bequeathed the property to her 3 sons who sold it to Sir Edward Duke of Cossington, Kent. Sir Edward sold Bobbing to Sir Richard Gurney (d 1647), alderman and Lord Mayor (1641) of London, who gave it to his brother-in-law Henry Sandford.
17th c. Acquired by Sir George Moore, baronet, via marriage to Henry Sandford's daughter.
ca. 1700 Sold by Robert Crayford, 3rd husband of Moore's widow, to Thomas Tyndale of North Nibley, Gloucestershire.
1748 William Tyndale had the mansion demolished.
REED Kent: Diocese of Canterbury 2.908
| Name | Dates | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| Savage, Arnold | 1358-1410 | Knight |
