| Description | 'A Book of Mapps of The Estate of the Hon[oura]ble Jacob Desbouvery Esq Lyong In the East Part of Kent'. [mainly in Folkestone and adjoining parishes]
1. The ground plot of a house in Hythe. 2. The coast from Hythe to Sandgate castle. 3. Sandgate Plain farm. 4.Folkestone town. Walton farm and warren. 6. A farm in Hougham. 7. Broad Mead farm. 8. Great Ford farm. 9. Park farm. 10. Terlingham farm. 11. Barn farm and Ashill farm, Hawkinge. 12. Coomb farm. 13. Standen farm. 14. Rainden Wood, The Minnis Pound farm and Hawkinge Mill farm. 15. Stonestreet farm (alias The George Inn), Elmsted. 16. Land in Romney marsh, Bilsington, belonging to Park farm and Standen farm. 17. Swingfield Minnis alias Folkestone Common, Swingfield. With keys stating field names and acreages. 'The scale being confined to be so small,, No mortal can pretend to be Exact in all'.
The survey was begun 13 April 1698 and finished 17 March 1699, and the large maps delivered 5 May 1699. (They are retained at Longford castle). They were then reduced into small maps in this book finished 15 December 1699 by Abraham Walter, Larkfield, surveyor. With loose copy of abstract of the survey |