Access Guide
Admissions
- At this location the following are free to access for all visitors: all areas.
- Parking is free for all visitors.
Public Transport
- There is not a bus stop within approximately 150m of the site.
- The nearest train station is Borough Green.
- Borough Green Station is approximately 5 miles away.
- For the latest travel options and information you can plan your travel using Traveline (opens new tab).
Summary
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- Amenities in this area include: a 3000-year-old long barrow (megalithic burial chamber) set within picturesque Kent Downs countryside.
- The most accessible entrance has steps, slight ramps/slopes and bollards.
- This entrance is the North entrance.
- There is restricted headroom and restricted room to manoeuvre at this property.
- There is not a member of staff available for help and assistance.
- The following are also available: seating and large print information.
- There are information boards at the long barrow, which are clearly written in large print and presented in contrasting colours.
Parking
- This site has a car park.
- The vehicle route from the main road to the car park includes: uneven surfaces.
- This is an open air car park with a tarmac, loose chippings, gravel and compacted gravel surface.
- Parking is free for all users.
- Maps and information boards are not available.
- There are no Blue Badge parking bays available.
- Obstacles from the car park include: uneven surfaces, a lack of pedestrian walkways to cross the car park, slopes/ramps and loose chippings.
- There are not parent and child parking bays available.
- There is not a designated drop-off point.
Outdoor Spaces
- Access into the area is via steps and a slight ramp/slope.
- The slope is between 75cm and 150cm wide, with no handrails.
- There are 10+ steps, which are unmarked, with a handrail on the left going up.
- The access points to the area are located on a farm track to the east of the long barrow.
There is one access point at the northern end and another at the southern end of the site.
The access point surveyed was the northern one which is the most accessible. - This is an open gap at the surveyed access point.
- The width of the gap is 88cm.
- There are bollards at the access point which have a minimum width of 39cm and are 16cm high.
- The bollards do not contrast visually with the paving.
- The following outdoor facilities are available: woodland, farmland and open countryside.
- The outdoor spaces include the following surfaces: loose chippings, grass, compact earth and uncompacted earth.
- Footpaths are available in some of the outdoor spaces.
- The majority of the paths are not wide enough for wheelchair users.
- There is no step-free level access around the area.
- There are slight ramps/slopes with handrails and more than 3 steps with handrails in the main areas .
- There are more than 3 steps with a handrail on the left going up leading from the northern entrance into the site up to the top of the long barrow.
There are more than 3 steps with a handrail on the right going up leading from the southern entrance into the site up to the top of the long barrow.
There is then a slight slope with a handrail on the right going up leading from the top of these steps up to the top of the long barrow. - There are some bench seats situated along the paths for people to rest.
- The Long Barrow is located on Coldrum Lane, a farm track accessed via a 500 metre long path leading from the car park.
There are narrow sections, steep slopes, muddy surfaces and tree roots along the path, which also has limited headroom in places due to low trees.
The path is mostly comprised of unsurfaced farm tracks, which may be muddy and slippery in wet weather. There is also a section along field margins.
The route from the car park to the site crosses non-National Trust private land via public rights of way, but the access points on Coldrum Lane lead directly into the National Trust Coldrum Long Barrow site.