The village is best known for a 1985 advertising campaign that promoted Lois Jeans as 'tougher than living in Pratts Bottom'. The name is said to derive from the Latin word 'pratum' meaning 'meadow'.
Once the home of the Atkins family and later demolished. Until the early 2000s the remaining buildings and additional modern blocks were used as a residential and day school. Now converted into homes.
There is a blue plaque on the lodge commemorating
Anna Atkins who lived and worked at Halstead Place.
She was a botanist who between 1841 and 1853 published
British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to
be illustrated with photographs ' example below.
The walk is ideal for travelling by train to Shoreham Station on the route from Victoria to Maidstone or St Pancras and City Thameslink to Sevenoaks.
This pub at Romney Street which you may find marked on your Ordnance Survey map is no longer open.
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