Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Kent Downs

#34 among attractions in Kent Downs

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Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery is a place of burial that was used in the seventh and eighth centuries CE. It is located close to the hamlet of Polhill, near Sevenoaks in Kent, South-East England. Belonging to the Middle Anglo-Saxon period, it was part of the much wider tradition of burial in Early Anglo-Saxon England. ()

Coordinates: 51°18'34"N, 0°9'30"E

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Kent Downs United Kingdom

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Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Chevening, Polhill Bank, Chatham Vase, Fort Halstead.

1.5 miSW
Park
Chevening, Kent Downs
38 min walk • Chevening House is a large country house in the parish of Chevening in Kent, in south east England. Built between 1617 and 1630 to a design reputedly by Inigo Jones and greatly extended after 1717, it is a Grade I listed building. The surrounding gardens, pleasure grounds and park are listed Grade II*.
1 miN
Park
Polhill Bank, Kent Downs
25 min walk • Polhill Bank is a 4-hectare nature reserve south of Shoreham, which is north of Sevenoaks in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. It is in Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This chalk grassland site is on a south-east slope.
1.4 miSW
Memorial
Chatham Vase, Kent Downs
36 min walk • The Chatham Vase is a stone sculpture by John Bacon commissioned as a memorial to William Pitt the Elder by his wife, Hester, Countess of Chatham. It was originally erected at their house in Burton Pynsent in 1781.
0.4 miW
Forts and castles
Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks
11 min walk • Fort Halstead is a research site of Dstl, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence. It is situated on the crest of the Kentish North Downs, overlooking the town of Sevenoaks, southeast of London.