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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 26 NW 1226 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Deer Park at Ford Manor |
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Summary
The earliest reference to a park at Ford is in a document of 1405. A map of 1624 shows deer in the park. By 1638 the park, of 160 acres was leased to Stephen Knowler. A survey of 1647 suggested there were no longer any deer.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2093 6585 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26NW |
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| Parish: | CHISLET, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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| HOATH, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PARK (Medieval to Unknown - 1405 AD?)
Full description
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The earliest reference to a park at Ford is in a document of 1405. A map of 1624 shows deer in the park. By 1638 the park, of 160 acres was leased to Stephen Knowler. A survey of 1647 suggested there were no longer any deer.(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. |
