‘The Channtry’ was bounded on the north and east by land of Richard Overey and to the south by land of James Lance; the Overeys were primarily yeomen farmers of Hartley, the Lances yeomen farmers of Ash. The western boundary was the highway leading from Ash to Longfield, now known as the Ash road, which in the vicinity of Scotgrove was the boundary between Ash and Hartley. This holding cannot have been far from Scotgrove and probably faced it across the road. The, site of the chantry chapel is believed to have been within the Scotgrove enclosure, but the matter is not beyond all doubt. The name of the Hartley croft may minimally increase such doubt, but almost certainly would have derived from its having been part of the endowment of the chantry; it could also be, perhaps, that the abode of the chantry priest was there. ²⁵
   In the eighteenth century the Scotgrove chantry was rescued from oblivion by the enquiring mind of Dr John Thorpe, the Rochester antiquary, Thorpe had set up his medical practice in that city in 1715, but it was probably not until ten or more years later that he took up the matter of the chantry with Samuel Atwood, the then rector of Ash, Atwood replied to him in a long and interesting letter that subsequently came into the possession of Thorpe‘s son, John Thorpe of Bexley, who published it, undated, in his Custumale Roffense.²⁶ 

In his letter the rector wrote:-
   ‘I have at last, by the help of your directions, found out the remains of that which was certainly the chapel of Scotsgrove (sic), though the name is perfectly lost and forgotten and not remembered by any person I can meet with. Upon the receipt of yours, I presently called to mind, there was a wood in this parish called Chapel Wood, in which I remembered I had formerly seen some foundations of ancient buildings. Upon enquiry, I found here had been a chapel, and I had the curiosity to go and search for it, which, by the help of an old man I quickly found. He went directly to it, though in the middle of a standing wood, where the dimensions of the foundations are very plain and visible to this day; and I have met with another man of this parish aged eighty-two, who remembers the walls five or six feet high, but neither of them ever heard the name of Scotsgrove ...‘.
   At that time, as for long after, there were in Ash two families who had certainly been settled in the parish by the first half of the fourteenth century, the Hodsolls, to whom Atwood was related by marriage, and the Lances; evidently no memory of Scotgrove had lingered in either family.
   Of the two old men who had assisted the rector in his enquiries