Jacket's Field Long Barrow, Kent Downs

Name: Jacket's Field Long Barrow
Address: Kent Downs, United Kingdom

#16 among attractions in Kent Downs

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Jacket's Field Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Boughton Aluph in the south-eastern English county of Kent. It was probably constructed in the fourth millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period. Built out of earth, the long barrow consists of a sub-trapezoidal tumulus flanked by side ditches. ()

Coordinates: 51°12'34"N, 0°54'34"E

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Kent Downs United Kingdom

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Day trips

Jacket's Field Long Barrow – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Ashford Golf Club, County Square Shopping Centre, Stour Valley Walk, Chilham Castle.

3.4 miSW
Outdoor activities, Golf
Ashford Golf Club, Ashford
88 min walk • Ashford Golf Club is a private members golf club located off the A20 road to the west of Ashford, Kent, England, close to junction 9 of the M20 motorway which leads on to the Channel Tunnel and Ports with good access to the Continent.
4.6 miS
51°8'54"N • 0°52'11"E
County Square Shopping Centre, Ashford
116 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
2.9 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Stour Valley Walk
73 min walk • The Stour Valley Walk is a recreational walking route that follows the River Stour, through the Low Weald and Kent Downs, from its source at Lenham to its estuary at Pegwell Bay.
3.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Chilham Castle
81 min walk • Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174; manor house was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Digges.
3.7 miS
Park
Conningbrook Lakes Country Park, Ashford
95 min walk • Conningbrook Lakes Country Park is a 34.3-hectare nature reserve in Kennington, Ashford in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. There are three lakes in these former gravel pits, and other habitats are ponds, a river, grassland and wet woodland.
4.6 miS
Museum, Architecture
Willesborough Windmill, Ashford
119 min walk • New Mill is a Grade II* listed smock mill in Hythe Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent. It stands just west of junction 10 of the M20 motorway. It was built in 1869 and is now a museum open to the public.
4.7 miW
Windmill
Charing Windmill, Kent Downs
119 min walk • Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed house converted smock mill on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.
1.7 miSW
Church
Saint Christopher's Church, Kent Downs
45 min walk • Saint Christopher's Church is a mediaeval Grade II listed church in Boughton Lees near Ashford, Kent, part of the Church of England. The building was originally a mediaeval hall house. It was later a barn and the village school. In the 1950s, it was adopted as a chapel of ease.
0.9 miS
Church
All Saints' Church
24 min walk • All Saints' Church is a 13th-century pilgrims' Grade I listed church in Boughton Aluph near Ashford, Kent. It is part of the Church of England.
1.8 miSE
Park
Olantigh, Kent Downs
46 min walk • Olantigh is a house 1 mile north of Wye in Kent, southeast England. It includes a garden of 20 acres. The hamlet in which the property stands is Little Olantigh.
4.1 miS
Park
Ashford Green Corridor, Ashford
105 min walk • Ashford Green Corridor is a green space that runs through the town of Ashford in Kent, England. The Green Corridor is made up of parks, recreation grounds and other green spaces alongside the rivers that flow through Ashford. It is a Local Nature Reserve.