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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 326 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Vine Pleasure Ground and Judds Piece |
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Summary
The Vine Pleasure Grounds features a cricket pitch, bandstand, pavilion, band practice room, pergola, pond and bridge. The area known as Judd's Piece is a copse and grass area that was given to the town in 1948 presumably as an addition to the pleasure grounds.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5317 5519 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BANDSTAND (Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD to 2050 AD)
- PAVILION (Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD to 2050 AD)
- BANDSTAND (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
- CRICKET PITCH (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
- ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
- ORNAMENTAL POND (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
- PERGOLA (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Historic Park or Garden 374: Judds Piece, Sevenoaks; Historic Park or Garden 325: Vine Pleasure Ground and Judds Piece, Sevenoaks |
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Full description
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The Vine Pleasure Grounds features a cricket pitch, bandstand, pavilion, band practice room, pergola, pond and bridge. The area known as Judd's Piece is a copse and grass area that was given to the town in 1948 presumably as an addition to the pleasure grounds.
On the southern side, The Vine Gardens can be entered from the High Street. This is a paved garden, under a creeper-clad pergola, which leads to a pond with a rustic bridge. Roses and herb borders form a fragrant approach to the grassy space adjoining the cricket ground. A listed pavilion, a bandstand and a band practice room all date from the 19th-century.
Cricket was played on The Vine from 1734, some 50 years before the ground was given to the town by the Duke of Dorset. Seven oaks were planted here to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902 and six had to be replaced after the hurricane of 1987.
Judd's Piece, nearby on Hollybush Lane, is a small area of copse and grass given in 1948 by Mr Walter Judd.
Site timeline
1948: Judd's Piece added to the pleasure gardens
Features
ornamental bridge
bandstand
Feature created: 1800 to 1899
pavilion
Feature created: 1800 to 1899
pergola
specimen tree
Seven oaks were planted here to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902 and six had to be replaced after the hurricane of 1987.
pond
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Parks and gardens online ID: 3387
Kent County Council, 1996, The historic parks and gardens of Kent (Kent Gardens Compendium) (Unpublished document). SKE12972.
<1> Parks and Gardens Data Services Limited (PGDS), 2005, Parks and Gardens UK (www.parksandgardens.org) (Website). SKE16061.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Kent County Council. 1996. The historic parks and gardens of Kent (Kent Gardens Compendium). |
| <1> | Website: Parks and Gardens Data Services Limited (PGDS). 2005. Parks and Gardens UK (www.parksandgardens.org). |
