# Kent Ramblers Walk 8

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## Points of Interest

### Pratts Bottom

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'.

### Halstead Place

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.

### Anna Atkins (1799-1871)

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.

![](https://www.kentramblers.org.uk/KentWalks/public/images/P008b.jpg)

### Public Transport

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.

### Fox and Hounds

This pub at Romney Street which you may find marked 
						on your Ordnance Survey map is no longer open.

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