Farmstead record MKE83389 - Wick

Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on one side and with additional detached elements to the main plan
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Farmstead completely demolished
(1-2)

A group of post medieval farm buildings named Wick are depicted on the 1864 Ordnance Survey map. They were situated on Well's Marshes, at the south-west corner of the Isle of Grain and were centred on TQ 8653 7428. By the 1896 edition an additional building and a sheep wash were also depicted. Still in existence in 1908 the site had gone by 1931. This site was identified as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(3-6)

<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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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> Ordnance Survey, 1862-1875, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1862-1875 (Map). SWX11831.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1893-7, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898 (Map). SWX11832.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1905-10, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912 (Map). SWX11833.

<6> 1931, Kent 1:10560 1931 (OS Card Reference). SKE59163.