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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 327 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | KEMSING PARK |
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Summary
A park at Kemsing is mentioned in documents of the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Part of its boundary is shown on the Tithe Map (1839) and OS 1st edition Six-Inch Map (1861-2) but little now survives.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5457 5779 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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| Parish: | KEMSING, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PARK PALE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1200 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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A park at Kemsing is mentioned in documents of the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries (1 a and b). The location of the park was thought to be lost but part of its boundary is shown on large-scale maps of the mid-nineteenth century (1 c and d). Subsequent disturbances, including the construction of the railway (1874) and M26 motorway (1980), have erased most of the line of the park pale. A brief field investigation revealed that little, if any, trace of the pale can now be seen. (1)
<1> Bowden, M.C.B. Arch. Cant., 1996, The Medieval Park at Kemsing (Article in serial). SKE16298.
<2> Susan Pittman, 2011, Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent (Monograph). SKE32115.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Bowden, M.C.B. Arch. Cant.. 1996. The Medieval Park at Kemsing. 116: 329-32. |
| <2> | Monograph: Susan Pittman. 2011. Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent. |
