Sandown Castle, Kent

Historical Description

Sandown Castle, a block-house in Deal parish, Kent, on the coast, three-quarters of a mile N of Deal. It was built in the time of Henry VIII., comprised central keep or circular tower and four surrounding round bastions, was the prison and death-place of Col. Hutchinson, has been undermined by the sea and sold, and is now a ruin.

Maps

Online maps of Sandown Castle 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

• Kent & Sussex Courier
• Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
• Dover Express
• Kentish Gazette
• Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
• Kentish Chronicle
• Maidstone Telegraph

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.