BOBBING, a parish in Milton district, Kent; 1¼ mile W by N of Milton, and 2 NW of Sittingbourne r. station. Post Town, Milton, under Sittingbourne. Acres, 1,071. Real property, £2,720. Pop., 449. Houses, 83. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to the Savages, and afterwards to the Cliffords. Bobbing Court, the seat of the Savages, is now a ruin. Bobbing Street, about a mile NE of the church, is on a branch of Watling-street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £96. Patron, the Rev. G. Simpson. The church is ancient and good; has a tower and spire; and contains a piscina and monuments of the Savages and the Tuftons. Titus Oates was vicar.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))