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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 408 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Otford Great Park |
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Summary
Medieval and post-medieval deer park dating perhaps to the 13th century but there were certainly deer here by 1423 when the estate was in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The land remained a park until at least the 1640s. It is not known if boundary features survive.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5363 5821 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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| Parish: | KEMSING, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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| OTFORD, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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| SEAL, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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| SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DEER PARK (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1241 AD? to 1649 AD?)
Full description
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Medieval and post-medieval deer park dating perhaps to the 13th century but there were certainly deer here by 1423 when the estate was in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The land remained a park until at least the 1640s. It is not known if boundary features survive.(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. |
