Dartford Heath Common is an area of open heathland situated to the south-west of Dartford, Kent, England, that covers around 314 acres (127 ha) of open space. Dartford Heath is classified as lowland heath and is one of only two substantial heathland blocks remaining in Kent. The heath supports a number of rare plants and invertebrates, as well as reptiles, including the common lizard and slow-worm, and rabbits.
Dartford Heath as Rochester Way passes through it
A ring ditch and tumulus on Dartford Heath, probably prehistoric in origin
Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan (1792–1875), 1st Baron Tredegar, owner of Dartford Heath
Footpath leading from Old Bexley Lane into a south-western corner of the heath.
Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located 18 mi (29 km) south-east of Central London and
is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames estuary, is Thurrock in Essex, which can be reached via the Dartford Crossing. To its east lies the Borough of Gravesham and to the south the district of Sevenoaks. It had a population of 51,240.
Holy Trinity Church, Dartford
The quarry at Bluewater, showing the underlying chalk
The Royal Oak Pub, which has seventeenth-century origins, in Dartford
The Library and Museum in front
