MRP: Snodland

Snodland, Kent

Potential sources

- Snodland Historical Society
- The society has a small museum and is forming an archive of material related to Snodland and its surrounding district.
- There is a - downloadable catalogue for the Snodland museum archive
- Copies of maps are available including:

• • A description of the manor of Halling in Kent (1634)
  • A plot and terrier of the land messuages etc. granted by Francis Bishop of Rochesterto Thomas Dalison, Esq., 1723, also his freehold lands (includes names from 1634 and later)
  • Map of lands in Halling and Snodland, Kent, belonging to the Bishop of Rochester granted on lease to Thomas Dalison Esq. (1832, includes many details from 1634 map)
  • See - map list

Medway Council City Ark - - Online map tool to query Medway council area and surrounding parishes for CityArk records

INTERESTING CITYARK RECORDS

Result number 16 - Please quote Reference: 06a_DE_SERIES_1001_1200/DE1016 on request slip.

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Hand-drawn map of Whorne’s Place Estate, Cuxton and Halling, 400 acres, owned by Sir John Marsham, giving field names, acreages and showing the River Medway, field boundaries, rabbit warrens, rights of way (including the route now known as the North Downs Way National Trail), buildings (including Whorne’s Place) and woodland, surveyed by Robert Felgate 1670, with Marsham’s coat of arms and scale of perches.

Parchment
34 ½” x 18” (875mm x 460mm)

Purchased by Medway Council with contributions from Cuxton Parish Council and the North Downs Way National Trail Lost landscapes Project, funded through Kent County Council and the Countryside Agency by the Heritage Lottery Fund Local Heritage Initiative Project.
Date: 1670
Quantity: 1 membrane