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Tithe map of Biddenden (parish), Kent. Shows buildings (named), rectory, workhouse,...

Catalogue reference: IR 30/17/30

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This record is about the Tithe map of Biddenden (parish), Kent. Shows buildings (named), rectory, workhouse,... dating from 1838 in the series Tithe Commission and Successors: Tithe Maps. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
IR 30/17/30
Date
1838
Description

Tithe map of Biddenden (parish), Kent. Shows buildings (named), rectory, workhouse, mill, windmill, field boundary ownership, boundary trees, fences, field gates, woods (named, coloured), hop grounds, footpath and/or bridleway, waterbodies, drain, bridge (named). Turnpike roads distinguished; toll gates. Scale: 1 inch to 3 chains. First class map. Construction lines shown; construction line diagram. Surveyed mainly by Thomas Thurston, Ashford, (part surveyed by Thurston in 1821) with work by G T Cloutt, John Arnott and 'Mr Thomson of Tenterden'. Notes on paper contraction, and how acreages were compensated accordingly.

With 3 altered apportionment maps. 1] Part of Ordnance Survey map Kent sheet LXIII. 14. 2] Dated 26 August 1915, at 1:2500, showing the Kent and East Sussex Railway. 3] Dated 30 March 1935, at 1:2500. Other altered apportionment maps are located with the apportionment.

Note
[Grid references: OSGB36: TQ 849 382; WGS84: 51.11269, 0.64190]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
Related material

Tithe file: IR 18/3508

Separated material

Tithe apportionment:

IR 29/17/30

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Map scale
1:2376
Physical condition
Manuscript
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Roger J P Kain and Richard R Oliver, The Tithe Maps of England and Wales (Cambridge, 1995).
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2302147/

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IR 30

Tithe Commission and Successors: Tithe Maps

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