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M. A. PINHORN
Norman's Place, Newbridge, Yarmcuizh, Isle of Wight PO41 0§E'Y 18‘ October 1990

In reply to the enquiry from ‘Sir Paul Huey of the Office of Parks, flew .
‘fork State, USA, please find overleaf information about Bridge Place.

Please give 1411- Huey my name and address; ‘if he’ believes I can help him
further I would be pleased to hear from him. As I mentioned when we
spoke on the ‘telephone, our younger son is an archaeologist, and could‘
help me should there be any technical questions. 6 . ,

I think -the New York Public Library holds copies of my publication

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BRIBGE PLACE, KEN‘, ENGLANB

Drawings by Sohellinlc, who stayed ‘there in 1661, in Van den Hem atlas,
National Library of Vienna, repmduced in Walgle Society, Vo1sXXXV
No.20, 21, Intro. '

Oblique and vertical air photographs, in the National Library of «_b.::r
Photographs, Swindon, Englando

Oliver Kill & John Gomforth, English Count:-y Hmzses Caroline 1625-1585
(1966) includes a. Note on the pmperty, stating, in error, that it had
‘been destmyed, 319223.

I-Ialcolm Pinhom, Lesser Known Buildings: Bridge Place Kent in
Bxaokmsnsbgy Vol.5 Nos 3 8: 4, pp.47-66. Cm-A w- me?)

John Harris, The A:*his'!: and the Country House (revised edn 1985) includes A

a. reproduction of a painting of the house in the late 1670s, attributed
to Adriaen Ocker, with a note, p.77.

During the excavations a quantity of glazed tiles were found, neatly
stacked, where there had been a fireplace. In a stream, formerly part
of the water garden, the base of a. garden urn was found.