Map of Bayford and Goodmanston manors in Murston and Sittingbourne, co. Kent: 1590 (ink &...

MAP, entitled: 'A Plate of the Manners of Bayford and Goodmanston in the parishe[s] of Sittingbourne [and Murston] in the Countie of Kent And made by Christofer Saxton in the month of September Ano D om ini 1590'. Scale bar of 64 perches to 4 in. [1:3168]. No compass points, but orientation given in margins in Latin North at top. 740 x 650mm. (sheet); 644 x 457mm. (map). Ink and colour wash on vellum. Shows fields, houses, an orchard, roads and waterways north of the Canterbury road and west of Sittingbourne church and Milton and Sitting-bourne creeks as far as the lane from Snipeshill to Murston. Two decorative cartouches on the right-hand side, of which the upper encloses the title and the lower gives the acreages of lands within the manors.