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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SW 280 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Panthurst Deer Park |
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Summary
The parkland at Panthurst is first mentioned in a licence to impark of 1348. It was subsequently owned by Archbishops Bourchier and Cranmer and the Crown. By 1544 the park was only 60 acres but by 1630 it had grown to 424 acres. In 2005 the boundaries as indicated on the 1630 map could still be traced on the ground.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5330 5160 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS WEALD, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DEER PARK (Medieval to Unknown - 1348 AD?)
Full description
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The parkland at Panthurst is first mentioned in a licence to impark of 1348. It was subsequently owned by Archbishops Bourchier and Cranmer and the Crown. By 1544 the park was only 60 acres but by 1630 it had grown to 424 acres. In 2005 the boundaries as indicated on the 1630 map could still be traced on the ground. (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. |
