Historic cartographic sources dating to the post medieval period note the former presence of a rope walk in an area today occupied by Marine Parade, Dover. J. Bavington Jones in his history of Dover notes that "The site of the Sea Front was, prior to 1817, a ridge of shingle and ooze, which began to accumulate about the year 1500. This great shingle ridge was Dover's original ropewalk, and the whole area was used, by the authority of an Act of Parliament as a gathering ground for cobble stones, with which the Town Commissioners of 1778 paved the streets of Dover." (1)

The rope walk is clearly depicted on Foquet's map of dover which dates to 1737 (2)

<1> J. Bavington Jones, 1907, Dover; A Perambulation of the Town, Port and Fortress. (Monograph). SKE32120.

<2> J. Foquet, 1737, Plan of the town, harbour and fortifications of Dover (Map). SKE31991.