Monument record TR 15 NE 145 - Trenley Deer Park

Summary

Trenley Park, certainly the oldest documented deer park in Kent, as well as one of the oldest in England. The park, of just under three hundred acres is first mentioned in a charter dated from 1071-82, and a little later is one of only two parks in Kent mentionedin Domesday. By the early fifteenth century the park ceased to be enclosed.

Location

Grid reference Centred TR 193 594 (1310m by 1413m)
Map sheet TR15NE
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish LITTLEBOURNE, CANTERBURY, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

<1> Arch Cant 99 1983 115-119 plan (T Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE36335.

<2> Susan Pittman, 2011, Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent (Monograph). SKE32115.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 99 1983 115-119 plan (T Tatton-Brown).
  • <2>XY Monograph: Susan Pittman. 2011. Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent. [Mapped feature: #93063 deer park, ]

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Record last edited

Jan 4 2022 3:50PM