"Wrotham Heath, a scattered district, 1 1/3 mile E by S from the church, consists chiefly of modern buildings: upwards of thirty neat brick cottages are now in course of erection. Here is the Royal Oak Inn and Posting-House kept by Mr. Wm Hollands; and on the summit of the hill is a wind-mill. A national school was established in 1845; average attendance is 80. About half a kile from Wrotham Heath are two hamlets, called Great and Little Comp."

Bagshaws Directory of the County of Kent, 1847

The 'modern buildings' Bagshaw refers to were not made of brick, but of Ironstone, or dark Sandstone. Thomas Styles, a landlord of the Royal Oak, purchased a row of these cottages in 1904 as a dowry for his daughter, and named them Daisy Cottages. For many years they were known as 'Navvies Dwellings' and believed to have been built for workers on the railway. However, being that the first of these cottages was erected on Windmill Hill in 1846, and that the railway wasn't opened until 1874, it seems more likely that they were built for workers at the windmill, which burnt down in 1906.

The mill was a local landmark for over a hundred years. On the 1st August 1800 William Luck made an application to build a windmill "on a piece or parcel of land that had been enclosed on a certain common called Wrotham Heath." Prior to it's construction, the hill had been known as Galey Hill on account of the gallows that were rumoured to have stood on it's brow.