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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 13 NE 293 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Saltwood Park |
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Summary
The earliest reference to a park at Saltwood is from 1273 when it was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1521 is had a mile-and-a-half circuit which would have made it c. 114 ha. It was disparked by 1596.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1664 3610 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR13NE |
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| Parish: | HYTHE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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| SALTWOOD, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DEER PARK (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1273 AD? to 1596 AD?)
Full description
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The earliest reference to a park at Saltwood is from 1273 when it was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1521 is had a mile-and-a-half circuit which would have made it c. 114 ha. It was disparked by 1596. (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. |
