Historic Boundary Stone on the A226 verge between Denton and Chalk by the garage and roundabout. The boundary stone original purpose was to mark the division line of the ancient parish boundary between both the Denton and Chalk parishes.

The Ordnance Survey recorded the boundary stone with a perambulation of the boundaries undertaking of the parish of Chalk with the adjoining parish of Denton. In depicting the monument, the Ordnance Survey refers to a B.S. marked "Denton and Chalk" using the symbol of a solid dot to display the location along the boundary line. The precise location is recorded at an earlier previous position on the physical intersection of two highways; those of the A226 and the Old Road East. Later surveyed as part of the Ordnance Survey series, from 1932 onwards the boundary stone is depicted as a solid dot symbol and labelled as 'stone' at an updated new location along the historic parish boundary line on the northern verge of the A226 highway.

Up to around 2017, the stone continued to mark a division between the ecclesiastical parish boundaries relating to Chalk and Denton. Following works to the highway, the stone became offset from the historic parish boundary division line and also re-aligned from the west/east historic orientation to a north/south orientated geographical position.

Owner: Kent County Council
Publicly accessible: Yes

How accessed for survey: The marker stone can be seen and accessed from along the public highway verge.

Tourism potential: Yes, especially educational teaching for school children and for regular local history walks in the area.

Condition: The monument has had physical damage resulting in the loss to one of the upper section elevations containing the inscribed Denton character inscription. The monument however retains the inscribed Chalk character inscription and a good deal of the exterior stone including most of the top chamfered edge.

Date of visit: 2 November 2024 (1)

<1> Stuart Richard Chappell, 2024, Communication from researcher Stuart Richard Chappell (Verbal communication). SKE57289.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1862, County of Kent: Perambulation of the boundaries. (Bibliographic reference). SKE57290.

<3> Ordinance Survey, 1934, Kent Sheet X. N.E. Scale 1: 10,560 (Map). SKE57291.