Trottiscliffe comes from the Old English ‘clif’ meaning an ‘escarpment, a hill-slope,
combined with a warlord’s name; therefore, ‘Trotts’s cliff’. The Domesday Book chronicles
Trottiscliffe as Totesclive.
Trottiscliffe church is a Grade: I listed building, dedicated to Saint Peter and
Saint Paul. The Normans built the church in the late 11th century, with the addition
of a south doorway into the nave in the 13th century. The 15th century saw the construction
of the bell-tower, with a porch underneath. In 1820, Westminster Abbey supplied the
Henry Keene’s designed pulpit. The Victorians carried out some restoration work in
the 19th century
