Teynham [pronounced 'ten-am'] means 'Tena's homestead/village', where . Tena is a personal male name. Other spellings include: Teneham, Therham (Domesday Book), Taenham, Taeneham, Tenham and Teneham (Domesday Monachorum).
The church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, which was very close to the Archbishop's Palace and The Manor Rolls in 1086 give Teynham as the mother church for the parishes contained within the Hundreds of Teynham for administrative purposes with Doddington, Iwade, Selling and Stone as the chapels.
Teynham came into use with the East Kent Railway's first section of operational line between Chatham and Faversham, on 25th January 1858, and was a station typical of this company's trunk line to Dover. There were just six trains a day in each direction calling at Rainham, Sittingbourne and Teynham.
