Castle Rough, Kent
Historical Description
Castle-Rough, an ancient camp on the N coast of Kent, in Kemsley Marsh, 2 miles N by E of Sittingbourne. It is an earthwork about 100 feet square, with broad ditch and single rampart, and was formed by Hasten the Dane, at his landing in 892.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Castle Rough are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)