Kit’s Coty House
Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state.Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: dolmen in England
- Also known as: “Ket’s Coity House”, “Kit’s Coty”, “Kit’s Coty House Long Barrow”, “Kits Coty House”, and “Kitts Coty House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Little Kit’s Coty House and Coffin Stone.
Little Kit’s Coty House
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Little Kit's Coty House, also known as Lower Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near to the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Little Kit’s Coty House is situated 1,500 feet south of Kit’s Coty House.
Coffin Stone
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Coffin Stone is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Kit’s Coty House.
Lower Bell
Pub
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Lower Bell is a pub and hotel on the A229 Blue Bell Hill, between Chatham and Maidstone in Kent. It is located at the edge of the North Downs where the A229 meets the Pilgrims' Way. Lower Bell is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Kit’s Coty House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kit’s Coty and Blue Bell Hill.
Kit’s Coty
Hamlet
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kit's Coty is a small village on the slopes of Blue Bell Hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Aylesford.
Blue Bell Hill
Village
Blue Bell Hill is a village in the Aylesford parish of the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. It is located halfway between Chatham and Maidstone and lies on top of Blue Bell Hill.
Eccles
Village
Eccles is a village in the English county of Kent, part of the parish of Aylesford, and in the valley of the River Medway. It is between Aylesford village and Burham, both a mile away.
Kit’s Coty House
- Categories: long barrow, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Aylesford, Tonbridge and Malling District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.31989° or 51° 19′ 12″ northLongitude
0.503° or 0° 30′ 11″ eastOpen location code
9F328G93+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 255116831OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q4222497
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Kit’s Coty House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “奇確墓”
- Russian: “Китс-Коути”
- Spanish: “Kit’s Coty House”
- Ukrainian: “Кітс-Коуті”
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