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Tag Archives: cobham village
Cobham online chat
The Cobham project online talk, held recently, is now available to watch online – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_cmOkJDzc&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ArchaeologywithSophie Resources mentioned in the talk incude: Medway archives – https://cityark.medway.gov.uk/ The Kent LiDAR portal is online here (you need to register) – https://kentlidar.org.uk/wp_kent/wp/ The British Library … Continue reading
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Tagged cobham hall, cobham landscape detectives, cobham village, excavation, social history
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A Cobham gentleman of the 1700s: Mr Hayes Diary
One of our volunteers, Don Blackburn, has transcribed the diary entries of Mr Hayes, of Cobham, Kent. As a boy Richard Hayes (1725-1790), lived with his uncle, Richard Hayes senior, at Owletts (now owned by the National Trust) in the … Continue reading
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Tagged chatham, cobham village, dartford, deal, france, gravesend, london, luddesdown, maidstone, meopham, rochester, shorne, social history, strood, woolwich
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Cobham, Kent
Cobham Landscape Detectives was a three year discovery project covering the Cobham landscape. Various techniques were used to study the village and the woods, including LiDAR, geophysics, fieldwalking, metal detecting, research, oral history, small scale trenching and test pitting. Kent County … Continue reading
Early footage of village life in Cobham
We’ve recently been alerted to footage of Cobham from 1944. The film can be found on Screen Archive South East’s website and shows village life in Cobham. The film follows villagers as they walk through the quiet streets and lanes, … Continue reading