A church is 13th century, & has brasses which are then reputedly a finest around England. Next to the church is Cobham College, the 1-old personal for lay priests, & today acting when almshouses. Cobham Hall was a previous 17th century front yard of the Earls of Darnley: since 1957 it has been a public school for girls; it opens to the public on occasionally occasions in the season.

Cobham has hard links using Charles Dickens, who utilized to hike bent the village & placed section of Pickwick Papers there. More personalities to exist as attached to Cobham include Sir Joseph Williamson, and a harebrained creative person Richard Dadd, who murdered his father touching there within 1843. A Hon Ivo Bligh, world health organization became a Sixth Earl of Darnley, was a foremost English cricket captain to attempt to recover The Ashes from Australia in the late 19th century.