For those who have enjoyed a picnic at the stones:
Near this spot [Kit’s Cotty-House] is a respectable Inn, which commands an extensive and beautiful prospect, and has on its sign-board, one of the best representations of the Cromlech that has yet been painted. The inn affords comfortable accommodation for persons inclined to spend a few days in this part of Kent. Those who establish their quarters here in summer-time, not unfrequently take their wine and coffee in the ancient cell which furnishes occasion for this note.
From ‘The Graphic and Historical Illustrator’ edited by Edward Brayley (1834).