Cobham

Village in Kent, England, 3 km/2 mi south of Gravesend; population (2001) 1,300. Cobham Hall, which is late Elizabethan with later additions, is one of the largest old houses in Kent, with grounds designed by Humphry Repton; it is now a private school for girls.

St Mary Magdalene church, which dates from the 13th century, contains commemorative brasses of the de Cobham and Brooke families, who were lords of the manor here. The Old College, founded for priests in 1362, and suppressed in 1537, was converted to almshouses in 1598.

The Leather Bottle Inn in Cobham featured in Dickens's novel Pickwick Papers.