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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 64 NW 340 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Cage Park, Tonbridge |
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Summary
Deer park, first referenced in 1327. It was one of a series of parks that surrounded Tonbridge. By 1570 the parkland covered some 400 acres but by 1625 had fallen to c. 340 acres.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6038 4835 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ64NW |
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| Parish: | TONBRIDGE, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DEER PARK (Medieval to Unknown - 1327 AD?)
Full description
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Deer park, first referenced in 1327. It was one of a series of parks that surrounded Tonbridge. By 1570 the parkland covered some 400 acres but by 1625 had fallen to c. 340 acres. Boundaries tentative (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. |
