MRP: Field visits
Field visits
Planned field visits
Field visits will be required to view the following parishes, landscapes and buildings
North-east Kent
Parish of Cuxton
Cuxton - site of Whorne place by river Medway (Leveson family, later Marsham family)
Gravesend
Parish of Halling
Halling Common
Halling salt marsh
Halling fresh marsh
Maidstone
Parish of Mereworth
Mereworth - Yotes Court (home of James Master)
Paddlesworth (?in parish of Birling or lower Birling, or ?in parish of Snodland)
Parish of Snodland
Rochester High Street - site of White Hart, Guildhall
Rochester Bridge Archives
Parish of West Peckham
West Peckham - the Bromptons (home of Maximilian Dallison, son of Elizabeth Dallison)
Parish of Wouldham
Woulham - site of Starkeys, former manor house (Marsham family)
Wouldham marsh
(Parishes of Burham, Eccles, and Aylesford)
East Kent
Parish of Acrise
Acrise place (home of Thomas Papillon)
Parish of Barham
Barham - Great Maydekin (home of Henry Oxinden of Barham)
Barham - Little Maydekin (later home of Henry Oxinden of Barham)
Barham - Brooke (home of Sir Basil Dixwell, later the Oxenden family)
Barham (CHECK) - Knowlton (home of Sir Thomas Peyton)
Parish of Denton
Denton - Denton Court (home of Sir Anthony Percivall)
Dover
Dover castle
Parishes of East and West Langdon
Langdon abbey, site of (home of Richard and Anne Master, and later of James Master)
Sandwich
Parish of Wingham
Wingham - Wingham college
Wingham parish church
Wingham - site of Deane mansion (home of Oxenden family)
Wingham - Deane farm
Wingham - site of Brooke house (other branch of Oxenden family)
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 was 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.
- See A.D. Hall and E.J. Russell, A report on the agriculture and soils of Kent, Surrey and Sussex (XXXX, 1911), cited in Joan Thirsk 'Agriculture in Kent 1540-1640' in Michael Zell (ed.), Early modern Kent, 1540-1640 (London, 2000), p. 75
A field report illustrated by photographs will follow.
Sources
Parish, manorial and estate maps
Whorne estate map, XXXX, available at XXXX and online
CKS: MAPS: CCRb/P 1731 – 1931: Cuxton and Halling by J. Hodskinson
CKS: MAPS: CCRb/P/1 1774
CKS: MAPS: CCRb/P/3 1731: Halling by John Joy
CKS: MAPS: CCRb/P/3 1731: Halling and Snodland, tracing by E.I. Lance CCRb/P/5 1633 copied c.1850
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)
