Waldershare Park, Dover, England

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

Traces of an early 18th-century formal layout, including a wilderness, surrounding a country seat set in 18th-century parkland.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Waldershare Park lies about 10 kilometres to the north-west of Dover, on the north-west side of the main A256, Dover to Sandwich road. The roughly 400 hectare site occupies a rural location bounded to the north by Kennel Hill, to the west by Coldred Road, to the south-west by Singledge Lane, and to the east and south-east by farmland beyond a shelter belt of beech. Waldershare House stands towards the bottom of the easternmost of two parallel valleys which run north to south through the site, a position which offers no extensive views.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

J Harris, The History of Kent (1719), p 325

T Badeslade, Thirty six different views of noblemen and gentlemen's seats in the county of Kent (1750s), plate 35

E Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (1797-1801) [Facsimile edition 1972], p 190

C Greenwood, An epitome of county history Volume 1, County of Kent (1838), p 422

J Newman, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent (2nd edition 1976), p 483

Maps

J Andrews, A Dury and W Herbert, A Topographical Map of the County of Kent, 2" to 1 mile, 1769

OS Surveyor's drawing no 107, 1801 (British Library Maps)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1906

Illustrations

J Kip, View of Waldershare, around 1719 (in Harris 1719) 

Description rewritten: April 2001

Edited: November 2003