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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NW 429 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Possible former deer park, Aylesford |
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Summary
There is a reference to the Common Park at Aylesford dating to 1597. This has been interpreted as a deer park although it could refer to a common. A map of 1867 in the Centre for Kentish Studies shows the boundary and various stretches of bank and ditch remain on the ground.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7221 5977 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NW |
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| Parish: | AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DEER PARK? (Post Medieval to Unknown - 1570 AD?)
Full description
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There is a reference to the Common Park at Aylesford dating to 1597. This has been interpreted as a deer park although it could refer to a common. A map of 1867 in the Centre for Kentish Studies shows the boundary and various stretches of bank and ditch remain on the ground.
According to an 1805 map (KHLC U234 E21 1805) the park consisted of c. 269 acres (1)
<1> Susan Pittman, 2011, Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent (Monograph). SKE32115.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Susan Pittman. 2011. Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent. |
