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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 SW 19 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Post Medieval salt works |
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Summary
Salt works established c.1558. Works still in use in 1851. Area now occupied by a sewage works.
| Parish: | SANDWICH, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SALT WORKS (SALT WORKS, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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[Name TR 337607] Salt Works [GT] (site of) Salt works were established on the seaward side of the ruined Stonar by the Crispe family after they bought the estate in 1558. As late as 1851, 52 persons were employed in the salt works. This area is occupied by myceluim filter beds and no evidence of salt-working remains.
Post Medieval salt works first visible on the Ordnance Survey 1877 edition [5] and still visible on the Ordnance Survey 1946 edition [6]. The site was seen to be in use as a water treatment works on Google Earth photography taken in 2007 [7].
<1> OS 6" 1960 (OS Card Reference). SKE48367.
<2> Arch. Cant. Vol. 54,1941, pp.54-5 (F.W. Hardman & W.P.D. Stebbing) (OS Card Reference). SKE37092.
<3> F1 ASP 27-SEP-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42321.
<4> Field report for monument TR 36 SW 19 - September, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6280.
<5> Ordnance Survey, 1862-1875, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1862-1875, 1877/1:2500 (Map). SWX11831.
<6> Ordnance Survey, 1928-1947, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947, 1946/1:2500 (Map). Ske12644.
<7> Google Earth, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 02-MAY-2007 ACCESSED 17-JAN-2011 (Graphic material). SWX15704.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1960. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Arch. Cant. Vol. 54,1941, pp.54-5 (F.W. Hardman & W.P.D. Stebbing). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 27-SEP-63. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 36 SW 19 - September, 1963. |
| <5> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1862-1875. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1862-1875. 1:2500. 1877/1:2500. |
| <6>XY | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1928-1947. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947. 1946/1:2500. [Mapped feature: #65963 Salt works, ] |
| <7> | Graphic material: Google Earth. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 02-MAY-2007 ACCESSED 17-JAN-2011. |
