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Field visits

Parishes of Seale and Halling

Visits were made to the parishes of Seale and Halling on Monday 19th September by Colin Greenstreet. The purpose of the visits were firstly to inspect the current landscapes of the two parishes, subsequently to compare these landscapes with parish and estate maps from the C17th, C18th and C19th, and finally to examine the surviving buildings at Stonepitts, Seale, formerly occupied by Sir Thomas Piers, and the Bishop's place, Halling, formerly occupied by the Dallison family.

A secondary literature search will later be conducted for texts originating in the C17th to C21st which describe and/or analyse the Kent north downs and greensand landscape around Seale and the lower Medway riverine, marsh and meadow landscape around Halling, Snodland and Wouldham.

A field report illustrated by photographs will follow.

Sources

Parish, manorial and estate maps

Whorne estate map, XXXX, available at XXXX and online
Parish of Halling tithe map, 1843
Ordinance Survey, 1866, Kent sheet: XXXX, 4in to mile
Ordinance Survey, 1897, 2nd ed., Kent sheet: X1X.13, 4in to mile

Secondary

Hann, Andrew, The Medway valley: a Kent landscape transformed (London, 2009)