Back To History Index
 

CURLSWOOD PARK: CRUDES WOD 1283, CRODDESWODE 1342, CRUDDYSWOOD 1425; ALSO CURLESWOOD PARK FARM & PARK FARM:

FROM THE O. E. CRUDES WUDU; CRUDES (A PERSONAL NAME) WOOD . ONE OF THE WOODLAND AREAS OF THE MANOR OF WINGHAM, IN 1283 CRUDES WAS WHERE RICHARD HOKEMOK HELD TWO PARTS AND RIKEMUND THE WIDOW OF ALEXANDER CRUD (FROM WHENCE THE NAME CAME) HELD THE THIRD PART, CRUDES WOOD THEN CONSISTED OF 244 ACRES. THE LATER CURLESWOOD PARK BELONGED TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY BEING IN THE 18TH CENTURY AN ENCLOSED DEER PARK. UNTIL THE 1920’S THE FARM HOUSE AND BUILDINGS STOOD JUST TO THE WEST OF THE JUNCTION OF CORNWALLIS AVENUE AND RATLING ROAD, AYLESHAM, THE AREA NOW OCCUPIED BY A NURSERY.

FROM: A SURVEY OF ARCHBISHOP PECHAM’S KENTISH MANORS 1283-85.

PUBLISHED BY KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY IN 2000. ARCHIVE REF: DA 1000A, ALSO ARCH. CANT. VOL XXXI PAGE 169. VISITATIONS.

COTLAND.

(COTLAND=INFERIOR TYPE OF LAND TENURE, USUALLY IN WOOD LAND, SOME RIGHTS SUCH AS GRAZING ATTACHED).

WOODLAND AREAS OF THE MANOR, ONE WAS AT CRUDES (CRUDES WOOD, LATER CURLESWOOD PARK FARM) AND ANOTHER AT WOLNUTH (WOOLEGE). AT CRUDES, RICHARD HOKEMOK HELD TWO PARTS AND RIKEMUND THE WIDOW OF ALEXANDER CRUD (FROM WHENCE THE NAME CAME) HELD THE THIRD PART. CRUDES CONSISTED OF 244 ACRES, WOLNUTH (WOOLLEGE) 296 ½ ACRES.

SALE OF LAND BY THE HEIRS OF CHARLES FIELDING TO SIR BROOKE BRIDGES, BART. OF GOODNESTONE, KENT. DATED: 15TH MARCH 1763. WHITFIELD ARCHIVES REF:U373/T36.

CURLESWOOD PARK: ALSO TURLSWOOD PARK, CROWDS WOOD, CURLESWOOD PARK FARM, PARK FARM. CURLESWOOD WAS OWNED BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND LEASED TO EDWARD FFINCH, A TRUSTEE OF THE ESTATE OF C. FIELDING, ON A TWENTY- ONE YEAR LEASE AT A RENT OF £ 954. 8/- FROM ABOUT 1758. THE LEASE WAS SURRENDERED IN 1763 AND RE-ASSIGNED TO SIR BROKE BRIDGES, BART., FOR THE SAME RENT AND CONSISTED OF:ALL THAT MESSUAGE OR TENEMENT CALLED THE LODGE. AND ALL THAT LAND AND PASTURE ENCLOSES BY PALE AND HEDGE AND SOMETIMES THEREIN IS MENTIONED USED AS A PARK FOR DEER COMMONLY CALLED TURLSWOOD PARK OR OTHERWISE CROWDS WOOD PARK SITUATED LYING AND BEING IN THE PARISH OF NUNNINGTON AFORESAID IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. CONTAINING BY ESTIMATION TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ACRES OF ARABLE AND PASTURE LAND.

CURLESWOOD PARK FARM SHOWING THE AREA IN THE EARLY 1920’S BEFORE AYLSHAM WAS BUILT.

 
Back To History Index