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Halstow Marshes Decoy Pond is a duck decoy dating from the early modern period, located in the marshland landscape of the Isle of Grain in Kent. The site represents an example of the wildfowl trapping technology that became widespread in England from the seventeenth century onwards, whereby elaborate systems of pipes and ponds were engineered to catch wild ducks for food and feathers. The physical remains at Halstow Marshes preserve evidence of these pond structures within the characteristic flat, dyked terrain of the Kent marshes, though the site has been subject to landscape changes over subsequent centuries.
Halstow Marshes Decoy Pond is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1424899. View the official record →
Halstow Marshes Decoy Pond is a duck decoy dating from the early modern period, located in the marshland landscape of the Isle of Grain in Kent. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1424899.
Halstow Marshes Decoy Pond is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1424899.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Chatham Dockyard, the Dockyard wall (9.4 km), Chatham Dockyard, Chain Cable shed (9.4 km), Former guardhouse (9.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Halstow Marshes Decoy Pond's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Halstow Marshes Decoy Pond stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.