Rock at Happy Valley

A beautiful part of the Rusthall Commons, this rock is a part of the area known as Happy Valley. Mesolithic flint implements found here suggest that these rocks were used as camp sites by nomadic hunters of the period.

This particular rock is known as the Cheesewring (i.e. Cheesepress) Rock, because of the narrow gap separating the isolated stack from the cliff behind. The stack was underpinned with the brickwork seen here in 1932.