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BOUGHTON PLACE ESTATE : BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA : CO. KENT : GOUDHURST : CO. KENT; RIPPLE...

Catalogue reference: KEN 8

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This record is about the BOUGHTON PLACE ESTATE : BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA : CO. KENT : GOUDHURST : CO. KENT; RIPPLE... dating from 1912-1948.

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Reference
KEN 8
Title
BOUGHTON PLACE ESTATE : BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA : CO. KENT : GOUDHURST : CO. KENT; RIPPLE FARM : WESTWELL : ASHFORD : CO KENT; SHARE FARM : HORSMONDEN : CO. KENT; MOTCOMBE ESTATE : YEOVIL : CO. SOMERSET
Date
1912-1948
Description

Accounts and registers relating to various farms and estates in Kent and Somerset

Arrangement

1 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

2 REGISTERS

Held by
Museum of English Rural Life
Language
English
Creator(s)
<famname>Beaton family of Kent</famname>
Physical description
2 series
Immediate source of acquisition

Presented on permanent loan 1966 July 29 by G.K. Beaton and son, ltd, Ashford, co. Kent

(Acc. no. 304)

Administrative / biographical background

The donors settled on their present site in about 1830. G.K. Benton farmed there and elsewhere, specialising in the purchase of low value derelict estates in, for example, co. Somerset and co. Northampton. His practice was to improve the properties and resell them

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/fefc2452-789e-4137-8dad-77aa8f149534/

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BOUGHTON PLACE ESTATE : BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA : CO. KENT : GOUDHURST : CO. KENT; RIPPLE FARM : WESTWELL : ASHFORD : CO KENT; SHARE FARM : HORSMONDEN : CO. KENT; MOTCOMBE ESTATE : YEOVIL : CO. SOMERSET