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Salmestone Grange is a medieval monastic grange located near Margate in Kent, established as an outlying farm belonging to the Benedictine monastery of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. The grange dates from the medieval period and represents the type of agricultural estate that supplied provisions to the parent monastery, reflecting the extensive land holdings and economic organisation of the Benedictine order. The site preserves evidence of medieval settlement and farming activity, though substantial built structures from the period no longer remain standing. Salmestone Grange exemplifies the monastic exploitation of countryside estates during the high and late medieval period, before the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century.
Salmestone Grange is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018881. View the official record →
Salmestone Grange is a medieval monastic grange located near Margate in Kent, established as an outlying farm belonging to the Benedictine monastery of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018881.
Salmestone Grange 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 1018881.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dent-de-Lion medieval gatehouse (2.1 km), Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Dane Valley Road (2.2 km), Double ring ditch and two enclosures 400yds (360m) NW of Danes Court (2.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Salmestone Grange'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.
Salmestone Grange stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.