[TQ 93555232] Boardfield Church [G.T.] (site of). (1) Boardfield Church was in ruins temp. Charles I. Its site now is in a field on Waterditch Farm. (2) No trace of this church remains. The site was under crop when visited. (3) TQ 925523. Boardfield is listed as a deserted medieval village. (4) Virtually no deserted medieval villages have been proven in Kent. The list of villages given by Beresford & Hurst is, with one or two exceptions, a list of isolated churches only perhaps an isolated church and manor house. (5)(6) Resistivity survey carried out by the Lenham Archaeological Society in 2008 detected the outline of the church (c. 25m x 9m) with an outlying feature c. 18 m to the north. Various sarsen stones had been moved from the field in the last century and the investigators suggest that this may indicate a more ancient role for the site. (8)

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> Hist of Kent 2 1782 504 (E Hasted) (OS Card Reference). SKE43951.

<3> F1 ASP 02-Jul-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41894.

<4> DMV 1971 191 (M Beresford & J Hurst) (OS Card Reference). SKE39751.

<5> Arch Cant 92 1976 10-11 for Making of Agrarian Landscape of Kent - A M Everitt (OS Card Reference). SKE36072.

<6> Md Village Res Gp 25 1977 9-10 (OS Card Reference). SKE46716.

<7> Field report for monument TQ 95 SW 15 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4846.

<8> Lenham Archaeological Society, 2008, Boardfield Church, Otterden (Unpublished document). SKE13585.

<8> Lenham Archaeological Society, 2008, Discovering Ancient Lenham: Volume 1 Edition 2: Magnetometer Surveys of Stumbles Field and Court Meadow: A Synopsis of the report by Bartlett-Clark Consultancy, p5 (Serial). SKE13584.

<8> Lenham Archaeological Society, 2011, Discovering Ancient Lenham: Volume 1 Edition 3 (Serial). SKE16752.