Holwood Hill, Kent
Historical Description
Holwood Hill, a place in Keston parish, Kent, near the boundary with Surrey, 4 miles S by E of Bromley. The Roman station, Noviomagus, is thought by some antiquaries to have been here; a treble-ditched Roman camp, about 2 miles in circuit, was here, and still partly exists; and Roman coins, bricks, tiles, and warlike implements, remains of a Roman villa, and remains of a circular tomb or temple 30 feet in diameter, have been found. Holwood House was the favourite seat of William Pitt, passed to the Wards, belongs now to the Earl of Derby, and is a beautiful place with grounds laid out by Repton.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5