We visited Chiddingstone, one of the prettiest villages in England.  It is very typical of the Kent style with half timbered sides and red roofs.  

Most of the buildings in Chiddingstone are more than 200 years old, and the building that is now the post office is mentioned as far back as 1453. The entire village belongs to the National Trust though the houses themselves are not open to view. We had a lovely lunch in the  historic Castle Inn, with its old-fashioned interior and vine-covered courtyard.

A footpath opposite the churchyard leads to the Chiding Stone, a large sandstone boulder just outside the village. The popular tale is that wrong-doers were brought to the stone to be chided by the assembled village. In what period of history this is supposed to have happened is not clear. The stone may have given its name to the village, or perhaps vice versa. It may have been a Saxon boundary marker, a Druids' altar or a place where judicial affairs were transacted by the ancient Britons. In the absence of evidence, you are free to believe any or none of these theories. At any rate, the stone is worth seeing.