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A detailed description of the history of the two Stone Age sites, which are now known under the – historically inexplicable – names “Kit's Coty House” and “Little Kit's Coty House”, is available for the culture-loving hiker on the following official website: => https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kits-coty-house-and-little-kits-coty-house/history/

Boxley Warren is a 83-hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Maidstone in Kent

Part of the Pilgrim’s Way, this is a stunning viewpoint from Boxley Hill overlooking the Kent Downs.

Water from this pond once pond once powered one of the largest iron works in the Weald employing over 200 men. In 1614 its owner, John Brown, was granted the monopoly of making iron and brass guns for the navy.

The site of a medieval earthworks

Although it doesn't look like much, Castle woods is a late 11th or mid 12th century earthwork motte and bailey fortress, founded by Ansgot of Burwell or Ralph de la Haye. The circular flat-topped motte, stands in the north-eastern part of a roughly circular bailey enclosure. The bailey which is divided in two wards by a broad east to west ditch, is encased by a steep sided partly wet ditch, with a counterscarp bank. On the photo, the semicircular protrusion on the bottom left corner of the wood contains the mound where the castle once stood

Little Kit's Coty House, also known as Lower Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, is a chambered long barrow. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Kit%27s_Coty_House Only 1 km away you find Kit's Coty House https://www.komoot.de/highlight/941356

Westfield Wood is a serene nature reserve that is part of an internationally-important yew woodland. The central part of the wood is occupied by a dense yew trees interspersed with mature ash, beech, field maple, wild cherry, and oak. Some of the mature beech trees are fine specimens. Others, which died in a bad storm in 1987, provide important dead wood habitat for many insects and fungi.