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Upper Shawstead Farm Ruins 001 (12.07.13)

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:bulletblack:Subject: Upper Shawstead Farm Ruins
:bulletpink:Location: Capstone Country Park, Gillingham, Kent, UK
:bulletblack:Date Taken: 12.07.13

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Capstone Park has the ruins of two cottages known as Upper Shawstead Farm (Sharstead). Shawstead meaning place in the woods.
The cottages were occupied until 1950 when they were considered unsafe possibly due to bomb damage. A map dated 1657 shows a single house but by 1781 there were two houses on the same site.
The ruin was excavated in the 1990s by the Lower Medway Archaeological Research Group where reports indicate the cellar might predate the upper building. The original owner being very well off then once divided into two buildings was owned by farm labourers.

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