Oxen Hoath, Hadlow, Tonbridge, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Formal gardens laid out by William Andrews Nesfield in the late 1840s beside a country house set in 18th-century parkland.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Oxen Hoath occupies a rural location about 7 kilometres north-east of Tonbridge and about 15 kilometres south-west of Maidstone. The roughly 110 hectare site is bounded to the east by farmland, to the south-west by Carpenters Lane, to the west by Oxenhoath Road, and to the north by farmland and woodland where the northern tip of the site meets Gover Hill. The ground falls significantly from north to south, the house standing on the dip-slope of the greensand ridge overlooking the Weald of Kent.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

J Harris, The History of Kent (1719), 235

T Badeslade, Thirty six different views of noblemen and gentlemen's seats in the county of Kent (1750s), plate 26

J Allibone, Anthony Salvin (1977), pp 87, 92, 172

E Hall, Architectural Association Garden Conservation Newsletter no 8, (1993), pp 3-6

Maps

Estate map, 1621 (U31, P3), (Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone)

Estate map, 1750 (U31, P4), (Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone)

Estate map, 1843 (CTR 285B), (Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone)

W A Nesfield, Plan of a parterre and rosarium for Oxenhoath, May 1847 (Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1878

Illustrations

T Badeslade, View of Oxen Hoath, 1719 (in Badeslade 1750s)