The name Boughton appears many times in Kent and is usually supposed to have started life as ‘the settlement near the beeches’. Boughton under Blean therefore is distinguished from others in Kent by being the one near the great forest of Blean. Now a long way from the centre of population it must once have supported a sizeable community.
The highlight of the church is a monument to Sir Thomas Hawkins. This was designed by Epiphanius Evesham (see also Lynsted). The family lived at Nash Court and became a centre of recusancy.
There are many brasses in the church dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
