St. Augstine's Church is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Brookland Village. It was orginally build around 1250 and has an unusal feature as its bell tower is separate from the rest of the church. There is evidence of a church being here in Saxon times and that Brookland belonged to Edward Coombe around 997 - he gave the manor to St. Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury as he son was a monk there.
The graveyard is home to the remains of Captain Adolphe Richard "Dick" Cooperwho was born in 1899 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was a secret agent awarded the Croix de Guerre for Gallipoli in 1915 and used the alias Arturo Ricardo Cavallero. He is the author of Twelve Years In The French Foreign Legion, The Adventures of a Secret Agent, Born To Fight and March or Bust. He died in Brookland in 1988.
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