Chestnuts Long Barrow
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Chestnuts Long Barrow, also known as Stony Warren or Long Warren, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Addington in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Probably constructed in the fifth millennium BC, during Britain's Early Neolithic period, today it survives only in a ruined state.
The sarsen megaliths that were once part of the chamber of the long barrow
View looking west across the burial chamber with the facade stones visible on either side
View looking east through the burial chamber of Chestnuts Long Barrow
Finds from the 1957 excavation are stored at Maidstone Museum
Addington, Kent
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Addington is a village in the English county of Kent. It is close to the M20 motorway, and between the villages of Wrotham Heath and West Malling. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is called Eddintune. The meaning of the village's name is "Æddi's estate". The village is notable for the long barrows, Neolithic chamber tombs. Its parish covers a little under 700 acres (2.8 km2), containing 291 houses. Addington Brook runs through the parish.
Addington, Kent
St Margaret's Church