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Names from the 6 inch O.S. Maps of Kent (revised
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List of place names from maps in alphabetical order:-
A B
C D E
F G H
IJK L M
N O PQ
R S T
UV WY
List of Parishes / Places with names found:-
A B
C D E
F G H
IK L M
N O PQ
R S T
U WY
In 1933 a Dr F.W. Hardman, an East Kent
antiquarian and lawyer, commissioned an unnamed unemployed clerk to extract
all the place names he could find on the six inch O.S. Maps for Kent of the
period, which had been last revised in 1905 and 1908.
He carried out this task very
methodically and produced an exercise book with some 4,000 place names in
alphabetical order along with their parishes and a numbering scheme which
Hardman devised in which he grouped all four quarters of the 25 inch map for
one area with its own new number. These numbers started at the extreme N.W. of
Kent with No.1 and proceeded to the East coast and so on southwards until No.
289 was reached. This East to West progression is the form which the O.S. Maps
follow. For the sake of simplicity in numerical listing where a topographical
feature is recorded e.g. a river crosses more than one map, the first map
number only is recorded.
At the time Dr Hardman had so many irons in the fire he passed
the work on to his fellow K.A.S. correspondent and friend Dr Gordon Ward of
Sevenoaks. After the decease of Dr Ward in 1962 his working papers were
deposited in the Library of the Kent Archaeological Society of which he had
been a member for some 35 years. Dr Ward was at the time greatly interested in
identifying Anglo-Saxon place names contained in A.S. charters.
Dr Hardman himself had long been interested in place name
research and had produced a little booklet in 1927 entitled The Danes in
Kent: A survey of Kentish Place-Names of Scandinavian origin.
Now some 70 years later Dr Paul Cullen has unearthed the
manuscript book and I have taken the whole project one stage further. After
newly re-listing the extracted place names they have now been regrouped
alphabetically by parishes and numerically by Dr Hardman's code in the hope
that all those at work in place name research will find this work of interest.
It is worth mentioning here that the author of Kentish Place
Names (1931) and The Place names of Kent (1934) namely J.K.
Wallenberg used (amongst his great many sources) the one inch and six inch
Ordnance Survey Maps of the period in the same manner as Dr Hardman's worker,
but with surprisingly different results.
Frank Bamping 2004
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