Coordinates: 51°18′30″N 0°18′30″E / 51.30825°N 0.30846°E / 51.30825; 0.30846
Wrotham (pronounced /ˈruːtəm/) is a village on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs. It is one mile north of Borough Green and approximately five miles east of Sevenoaks. It is between the M20 and M26 motorways.
The name first occurs as Uurotaham in the year 788, meaning 'homestead of a man called Wrōta.'
The village has a central concentration of pubs, three within a hundred yards of each other: the Rose and Crown, the George and Dragon and the Bull Hotel. A fourth, the Three Postboys, ceased trading in 2009.
The offshoot village on Wrotham Heath of the same name as the heath, once an area of wholly common land, is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-east.
Wrotham Hill to the north was a main measuring point for the eighteenth-century trigonometric survey linking the Greenwich Royal Observatory with the Paris Observatory. This Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) was led by General William Roy.
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You got your body in the way
You're so damn nonchalant
But it's your mind that I want
You got me huffin' and a-puffin'
Next to you I feel like nothin' Rita May
Rita May, Rita May
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When do you ever see the light?
Don't you ever feel a fright?
You got me burnin' and I'm turnin'
But I know I must be learnin' Rita May
All my friends have told me
If I hang around with you that I'll go blind
But when you hold me
I know there must be somethin' on your mind
Rita May, Rita May
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[Incomprehensible] where you been?
What's that crazy place you're in?
I'm gonna have to go to college
'Cause you are the book of knowledge Rita May
All my friends have told me
If I hang around with you that I'll go blind
But I know when you hold me
That there really must be somethin' on your mind
Rita May, Rita May
You got your body in the way
You're so damn nonchalant
It's your mind that I want
I'm gonna have to go to college