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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 54 SW 357 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Ashour / Ashower Park |
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Summary
The earliest reference to a park at Ashour is from 1407. By 1552 it was 342 acres in size but fell to 122 acres by 1612.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5470 4420 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ54SW |
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| Parish: | LEIGH, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PARK (Medieval to Unknown - 1407 AD?)
Full description
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The earliest reference to a park at Ashour is from 1407. By 1552 it was 342 acres in size but fell to 122 acres by 1612. (1,2)
<1> Susan Pittman, 2011, Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent (Monograph). SKE32115.
<2> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Susan Pittman. 2011. Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge. |
