Farmstead record MKE83315 - Sheepfold north west of Egypt Saltings

Type: Single with working agricultural buildings on two sides
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Farmstead completely demolished
Notes: Sheepfold
(1-2)

A post medieval sheepfold is depicted on the 1894 Ordnance Survey map Halstow Marsh. This sheepfold consisted of a group of buildings which divided in two a small enclosure defined by drainage ditches west of Egypt Bay and centred on TQ 7703 7917. The area was still divided by 1897 although there were by then fewer buildings. The northern half of the enclosure in 1897 was planted with trees. The buildings had been demolished by 1908 although their general location is indicated by a slight depression seen on aerial photographs taken in 1947. Most of the drainage ditches have since been filled-in. This site was identified as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(3-7)

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE18076.

<3> Ordinance Survey, 1894, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, 1894 (Map). SKE57249.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1897, Kent 1:2500 1897 (Map). SKE58577.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1908, Ordnance Survey Kent 1:2500 1908 (Map). SKE55927.

<6> RAF, 1947, RAF CPE/UK/1923 4025 16-JAN-1947 (Photograph). SKE58836.

<7> EARTH.GOOGLE.COM, 2011, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 31-DEC-2003 ACCESSED 3-FEB-2011 (Photograph). SKE58835.