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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NE 235
Type of record:Monument
Name:Northgate Bar

Summary

Northgate Bar


Grid Reference:TR 1543 5849
Map Sheet:TR15NE
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Full description

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(TR 15435849. Sited from CAT Topo map). Northgate Bar. (1) In Sturry Road, at Coldharbour Lane, nearly half a mile from Northgate is one of a series of bars existing in the 12th/13th centuries which must have been part of a scheme of outer defence for Canterbury. (2)


<1> CAT Topo Maps of Cant 2nd ed 1982 c1200 (OS Card Reference). SKE38737.

<2> Cant under the Angevin Kings 1967 196 (W Urry) (OS Card Reference). SKE38519.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: CAT Topo Maps of Cant 2nd ed 1982 c1200.
<2>XYOS Card Reference: Cant under the Angevin Kings 1967 196 (W Urry). [Mapped feature: #43511 Town gate, ]