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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NE 251 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Ightham Park, medieval deer park (also called West Park of Wrotham) |
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Summary
The earliest reference ot parkland at Ightham is from a document of 1238 when the land was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. By the 1530s it was owned by the Crown. In 1620, at about the time William James purchased the manor of Ightham, it was c. 138 acres in size. It is well defined by earthwork banks and ditches.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5988 5821 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NE |
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| Parish: | IGHTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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| WROTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DEER PARK (Medieval to Unknown - 1283 AD?)
Full description
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The earliest reference ot parkland at Ightham is from a document of 1238 when the land was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. By the 1530s it was owned by the Crown. In 1620, at about the time William James purchased the manor of Ightham, it was c. 138 acres in size. It is well defined by earthwork banks and ditches. (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. |
