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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 54 NE 43 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Straight Mile or the New Cut |
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Summary
Remains of canal and towpath built c.1830 to make this part of the Medway navigatable but never completed.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 55556 45662 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ54NE |
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| Parish: | TONBRIDGE, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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| LEIGH, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CANAL (Abandoned 1831, Post Medieval - 1829 AD to 1829 AD)
- TOW PATH (Abandoned 1831, Post Medieval - 1829 AD to 1829 AD)
Full description
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Remains of canal and towpath built c.1830 by James Christe who founded the Penshurst Canal Company to make this part of the Medway navigatable. Although three cuts were made, only the section above Barden, "the Long Reach", was completed. Christie went bankrupt and fled to America. (1-2)
Additional Information (3)
<1> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.
<2> P. A. L. Vine, 1989, Kent and East Sussex Waterways (Monograph). SKE6959.
<3> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge. |
| <2> | Monograph: P. A. L. Vine. 1989. Kent and East Sussex Waterways. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Cluttons. 1994. Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan. |
