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Monument details

HER Number:TR 25 SE 325
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bonnington Vill, earthworks in Goodnestone

Summary

A series of platforms, depressions and lynchets in pasture to the west of the present Bonnington Farm. This is possibly part of the shrunken 'vill' of Bonnington, the former home of the Boys family, from whom John Boys of Betteshanger, the author of the Agricultural Survey of Kent, was descended.


Grid Reference:TR 2500 5385
Map Sheet:TR25SE
Parish:GOODNESTONE, DOVER, KENT

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A series of platforms, depressions and lynchets in pasture to the west of the present Bonnington Farm. This is possibly part of the shrunken 'vill' of Bonnington, the former home of the Boys family, from whom John Boys of Betteshanger, the author of the Agricultural Survey of Kent, was descended (1).


<1> Nicola Bannister, 2001, Goodnestone Park and Estate: Heritage Landscape Management Plan (Unpublished document). SKE15949.

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<1>Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. 2001. Goodnestone Park and Estate: Heritage Landscape Management Plan.