MRP: Barham Downs - Revision history

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 ==Barham Downs in seventeenth century==

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-==Barham Downs==
+'''Barham Downs'''
 '''Editorial history'''
 '''THIS ENTRY IS IN PREPARATION'''
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+__TOC__
-===Barham Downs in seventeenth century===
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 Barham Downs featured in the lives of the Oxindens of both Deane and Barham.  A number of letters printed by D.K. Gardiner or available in manuscript at the British Library make reference to the Downs.
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 The landscape of the Downs has changed significantly since the early part of the seventeenth century, as intensive agriculture has encroached on the chalk grasslands.  The crops and livestock raised by the Oxendens and their neighbours were significantly different from twenty-first century crops and livestock.  Already in the early nineteenth century crops were changed compared with the early seventeenth century.  For example, the hop farms of Sir Henry Oxenden of Broome on his tenanted Dene estate, as reported by his former estate manager in 1840 (CHECK), were already much reduced compared with the eighteenth century.
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-===Twenty-first century descriptions===
+==Twenty-first century descriptions==
 Attitudes towards and the aesthetic appreciation of the Downs have also changed since the early seventeenth century.  [https://shareweb.kent.gov.uk/Documents/environment-and-planning/Wildlife%20and%20landscapes/Landscape%20Assessment%20of%20Kent%20October%202004.pdf The Landscape Assessment of Kent landscape, 2004:XXX] characterises the East Kent Downs in the early twenty-first century in idyllic language, stressing their peace, remoteness and beauty:
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 [[File:ENGRAVING_CROPPED_Hundreds_Wingham_Kinghamford_Barham_Detail.PNG|thumbnail|450px|none]]
-===Nineteenth century descriptions===
+==Nineteenth century descriptions==
 Hasted, 1800:358-60 was not enamoured of Barham Downs, which abutt the parish of Denton:
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 An amateur botanist described the wide range of flora to be seen on and at the edge of Barham Downs in the 1860s (Pamplin, 1863:18-21)
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-===Field sports on the Downs===
+==Field sports on the Downs==
 The principal field sports in East Kent in the early seventeenth century were hare coursing and fox hunting.  Stags were rare in this part of the country, as a writer commented in [http://books.google.com/books?id=KLwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296&dq=%22adisham+downs%22&hl=en&ei=qExwTuDtCozrOe_6td8B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22adisham%20downs%22&f=false Sporting Magazine, 20th March 1804: 296] when reporting the release and hunting of a fine stag in St. Alban's Downs.  A selection of dogs from the East Kent pack, together with one hundred and fifty horsemen, made a course "across the country towards Folkestone."  A further stag was due to be released on Adisham Downs the following day.
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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=G7EUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=twopage&q&f=false Whyte, 1840:255-56] described a well established two day horse racing event on Barham Downs towards the end of August each year.  By the late 1830s the races on the Downs were a significant event, with a "commodious stand," the theatre open in nearby Canterbury, together with "balls and other gaieties."  However, Whyte gives no prior history to the event, and it seems unlikely that it had been established prior to the eighteenth century, when there was rapid growth in horse racing throughout England (CHECK ACCURACY AND NEED A REFERENCE)
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-===Oxenden and neighbours participation in field supports in the early and mid seventeenth century===
+==Oxenden and neighbours participation in field sports in the early and mid seventeenth century==
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-===Further research===
+==Possible further research==
-(1) Are the Barham and Adisham Downs classified as areas of outsnading beauty, or of scientific interest?
+(1) Are the Barham and Adisham Downs classified as areas of outstanding beauty, or of scientific interest?
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-===Sources===
+==Sources==
 '''Primary'''
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-===Possible sources of interest===
+==Possible sources of interest==
 Cross Francis William and J.R. Hall, ''Rambles round old Canterbury'' (?London, 1884)
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 - Look for a bibliography of seventeenth and eighteenth century agricultural literature
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-===Image credits===
+==Image credits==
 Photograph of detail of engraving of Hundreds of Wingham and Kinghamford, XXXX, XXXX.  Photograph is copyright of Colin Greenstreet, 2011
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-= Barham Downs =
+==Barham Downs==
 '''THIS ENTRY IS IN PREPARATION'''
 Barham Downs featured in the lives of the Oxindens of both Deane and Barham.  A number of letters printed by D.K. Gardiner or available in manuscript at the British Library make reference to the Downs.
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 The landscape of the Downs has changed significantly since the early part of the seventeenth century, as intensive agriculture has encroached on the chalk grasslands.  The crops and livestock raised by the Oxendens and their neighbours were significantly different from twenty-first century crops and livestock.  Already in the early nineteenth century crops were changed compared with the early seventeenth century.  For example, the hop farms of Sir Henry Oxenden of Broome on his tenanted Dene estate, as reported by his former estate manager in 1840 (CHECK), were already much reduced compared with the eighteenth century.
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-'''Twenty-first century descriptions'''
+===Twenty-first century descriptions===
 Attitudes towards and the aesthetic appreciation of the Downs have also changed since the early seventeenth century.  [https://shareweb.kent.gov.uk/Documents/environment-and-planning/Wildlife%20and%20landscapes/Landscape%20Assessment%20of%20Kent%20October%202004.pdf The Landscape Assessment of Kent landscape, 2004:XXX] characterises the East Kent Downs in the early twenty-first century in idyllic language, stressing their peace, remoteness and beauty:
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 [[File:ENGRAVING_CROPPED_Hundreds_Wingham_Kinghamford_Barham_Detail.PNG|thumbnail|450px|none]]
-'''Nineteenth century descriptions'''
+===Nineteenth century descriptions===
 Hasted, 1800:358-60 was not enamoured of Barham Downs, which abutt the parish of Denton:
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 An amateur botanist described the wide range of flora to be seen on and at the edge of Barham Downs in the 1860s (Pamplin, 1863:18-21)
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-'''Field sports on the Downs'''
+===Field sports on the Downs===
 The principal field sports in East Kent in the early seventeenth century were hare coursing and fox hunting.  Stags were rare in this part of the country, as a writer commented in [http://books.google.com/books?id=KLwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296&dq=%22adisham+downs%22&hl=en&ei=qExwTuDtCozrOe_6td8B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22adisham%20downs%22&f=false Sporting Magazine, 20th March 1804: 296] when reporting the release and hunting of a fine stag in St. Alban's Downs.  A selection of dogs from the East Kent pack, together with one hundred and fifty horsemen, made a course "across the country towards Folkestone."  A further stag was due to be released on Adisham Downs the following day.
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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=G7EUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=twopage&q&f=false Whyte, 1840:255-56] described a well established two day horse racing event on Barham Downs towards the end of August each year.  By the late 1830s the races on the Downs were a significant event, with a "commodious stand," the theatre open in nearby Canterbury, together with "balls and other gaieties."  However, Whyte gives no prior history to the event, and it seems unlikely that it had been established prior to the eighteenth century, when there was rapid growth in horse racing throughout England (CHECK ACCURACY AND NEED A REFERENCE)
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-'''Oxenden and neighbours participation in field supports in the early and mid seventeenth century'''
+===Oxenden and neighbours participation in field supports in the early and mid seventeenth century===
 ADD QUOTES FROM VARIOUS LETTERS
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-'''Further research'''
+===Further research===
 (1) Are the Barham and Adisham Downs classified as areas of outsnading beauty, or of scientific interest?
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-''Sources''
+===Sources===
 '''Primary'''
-Brady, John Henry, The Dover road sketch book; or, Traveller's pocket guide, between London and Dover (?London, 1837)
+Brady, John Henry, ''The Dover road sketch book; or, Traveller's pocket guide, between London and Dover'' (?London, 1837)
-Gardiner, Dorothy, The Oxinden letters 1607-1642.  Being the correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham and his circle (London, 1933)
+Gardiner, Dorothy, ''The Oxinden letters 1607-1642.  Being the correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham and his circle'' (London, 1933)
-Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the county of Kent, vol. 9 (London, 1800)
+Hasted, Edward, ''The History and topographical survey of the county of Kent'', vol. 9 (London, 1800)
-Pamplin, William, The Phytologist: a botanical journal, vol. 6 (?London, 1863)
+Pamplin, William, ''The Phytologist: a botanical journal'', vol. 6 (?London, 1863)
-The sporting magazine for March 1804, vol. 25 (sic) (London, 1804)
+''The sporting magazine for March 1804'', vol. 25 (sic) (London, 1804)
 [http://books.google.com/books?id=G7EUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Whyte, James Christie, History of the British turf: from the earliest period to the present day, vol. 1 (London, 1840)]
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 - Makes reference to Kent Historic Landscape Characterisation Study (N/D)
-'''Possible sources of interest'''
+Cross Francis William and J.R. Hall, ''Rambles round old Canterbury'' (?London, 1884)
-−
 Cross Francis William and J.R. Hall, Rambles round old Canterbury (?London, 1884)
 - Includes a description of neighbouring parishes to Canterbury, such as Patrixbourne and Bekesbourne
-Annals of agriculture and other useful arts (Bury St. Edmunds, 1793)
+''Annals of agriculture and other useful arts'' (Bury St. Edmunds, 1793)
 - When was this journal first published
 - Look for a bibliography of seventeenth and eighteenth century agricultural literature
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-'''Image credits'''
+===Image credits===
-Photograph of detail of engraving of Hundreds of Wingham and Kinghamford, XXXX, XXXX. Photograph is copyright of Colin Greenstreet, 2011
+Photograph of detail of engraving of Hundreds of Wingham and Kinghamford, XXXX, XXXX.  Photograph is copyright of Colin Greenstreet, 2011
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	Barham Downs featured in the lives of the Oxindens of both Deane and Barham. A number of letters printed by D.K. Gardiner or available in manuscript at the British Library make reference to the Downs.		Barham Downs featured in the lives of the Oxindens of both Deane and Barham. A number of letters printed by D.K. Gardiner or available in manuscript at the British Library make reference to the Downs.

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 Cross Francis William and J.R. Hall, Rambles round old Canterbury (?London, 1884)
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 '''Image credits'''

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		+	Photograph of detail of engraving of Hundreds of Wingham and Kinghamford, XXXX, XXXX. Photograph is copyright of Colin Greenstreet, 2011
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 '''Field sports on the downs'''
-The principal field sports in East Kent in the early seventeenth century were hare coursing and fox hunting.  Stags were rare in this part of the country, as a writer commented in [http://books.google.com/books?id=KLwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296&dq=%22adisham+downs%22&hl=en&ei=qExwTuDtCozrOe_6td8B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22adisham%20downs%22&f=false Sporting Magazine, 20thMarch 1804: 296] when reporting the release and hunting of a fine stag in St. Alban's Downs.  A selection of dogs from the East Kent pack, together with one hundred and fifty horsemen, made a course "across the country towards Folkestone."  A further stag was due to be released on Adisham Downs the following day.
+The principal field sports in East Kent in the early seventeenth century were hare coursing and fox hunting.  Stags were rare in this part of the country, as a writer commented in [http://books.google.com/books?id=KLwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296&dq=%22adisham+downs%22&hl=en&ei=qExwTuDtCozrOe_6td8B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22adisham%20downs%22&f=false Sporting Magazine, 20th March 1804: 296] when reporting the release and hunting of a fine stag in St. Alban's Downs.  A selection of dogs from the East Kent pack, together with one hundred and fifty horsemen, made a course "across the country towards Folkestone."  A further stag was due to be released on Adisham Downs the following day.
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 ''Sources''