Jim Dickson

Tracing the Plenty Brook Through Herne Bay

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Location of Plenty Brook and drainage sewers (blue, light blue), taken from OS 1888-1913, overlayed on Open Street Maps together with OS Zoomstack waterlines (red). Data and sources are reviewed below.

Herne Bay Memorial Park, Open Street Maps. Overlays by Jim DIckson: Dark Blue – 1888 OS location of brook. Light Blue – 1888 OS location of drainage sewers. Red – current OS Zoomstack water lines.
  1. An analysis of elevation, taken from Environment Agency LiDAR surveys, in central Herne Bay including the Memorial Park area. Elevations below 3.75 m are shaded.
Open Street Map of Herne Bay with areas below 3.75 m shaded. Elevation by EA LiDAR.

2. Herne Bay on Mudge 1801. This shows a stream heading from Eddington Lane to the coast through the countryside; a significant drainage feature. My georeferencing of this map is not precise enough to deduce an accurate location of the feature.

part of Mudge’s map of the County of Kent 1801, sourced from David Rumsey Map Collection

3. The OS Map series 1888-1913 has the Plenty Brook marked, going under the railway.

Herne Bay OS 1888-1913

The brook crosses land currently occupied by the Memorial Park and exits the area opposite where the Park Pharmacy is situated today.

Site of Herne Bay Memorial Park OS 1888-1913 with Plenty Brook and associated drainage channels

4. The OS 1888 map and current OS Zoomstack features can be overlayed as transparency on Google Satellite Imagery.

Herne Bay Memorial Park OS 1888-1913 transparent over Google satellite
Google satellite with OS Zoomstack surface water and water lines
Google satellite with OS Zoomstack surface water and water lines and Jim Dickson trace of 1888 Brook and drainage channels

5. A summary superimposed on Open Street Map.

Herne Bay Memorial Park, Open Street Maps. Overlays by Jim DIckson: Dark Blue – 1888 OS location of brook. Light Blue – 1888 OS location of drainage sewers. Red – current OS Zoomstack water lines.

Aerial photography records an early image of the park in 1932.

Related posts:

  1. The Naze, Walton – OS Coastline 1888-1913 and Satellite 2024
  2. Hampton, Herne Bay, Kent. Coastline and littoral then and now.
  3. Flooding up the Wantsum Channel on Mudge’s Map
  4. Preston in East Kent, a village on a tidal creek off the Wantsum Channel.

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