Oare taken from the Saxon, mean a 'flat-topped ridge'.
The small Norman church is dedicated to St Peter and dates back to the 12th and 13th centuries, with Victorian additions by Joseph Clarke
Oare gunpowder works was founded in about 1690 by Huguenot refugees, who were encouraged to settle in Faversham, because French gunpowder production technology, in the 17th Century, was more advanced than English. The Oare Works (originally known as Davington Mills) slowly expanded, and was progressively modernised, throughout its working life.
