 Significant figures who have lived in the village include Captain Robert Maynard, Stephen Haggett, Proctor of Queens' College, Cambridge in the seventeenth century and Olivia Barclay, astrologer.Great Mongeham may have been a settlement as long ago as the Bronze Age.When the site for the new primary school was being dug in February 1949 the body of a man and two fragments of food vessels were found.