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Otford
Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent. It is located north of the town Sevenoaks and on the River Darent, flowing north down its valley from its source on the North Downs. At its centre is a church, village pond and multiple pubs and shops. The idyllic traffic island in the village of Otford, is also the only circular junction in the UK to have been granted listed status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Otford a Country Paradise )〕
==History==
The name is a contraction of ''Otterford'', possibly derived from Offa, the King of Mercia who fought a battle at Otford against the Kentish Saxons in 776 at the Battle of Otford. Notable landmarks are the Archbishop's Palace, the duck-pond roundabout and the scale model of the solar system which claims to be one of the largest scale modes of the solar system in the world. The Anglican parish church of Otford is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew. Otford Methodist Church, Otford Evangelical Free Church and the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Holy Trinity also serve the village; the buildings were registered for marriages in 1936, 1959 and 1981 respectively.
From circa 650 to 750, during the Early Medieval period, Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery was used as a place of burial. The archaeologist Brian Philp suggested that the community who buried their dead at Polhill likely lived at Otford, noting that from the centre of the village, the cemetery was visible.
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