The scale of Bryant’s map is 1:50688, permitting a considerable expansion of detail over Swire & Hutchings’. Carden Park appears as a much more extensive property on this map than on Swire and Hutchings’, which means either that the parkland had expanded considerably during the intervening two years or that the surveyors used different criteria for showing the extent of parkland. The woodland west of Carden Brook has gone and the parkland extends beyond it, the ornamental lake now stretches to the south of the Barton approach road and the southern boundary of the park is almost on the line of the Stretton Mill-Lower Carden road.
Some of these alterations can be attributed to inaccurate surveying. The size and position of the lake are demonstrably incorrect: it is placed too close to Carden Brook, and its extension to the south of the Barton approach road is ruled out by the continuation of ridge-and-furrow earthworks across this area on the 1947 aerial photographs. The complete lack of woodland west of the Brook is also wrong, as woodland is still shown in places on the 1839 Tithe Map of Stretton. The map also ignores the part of Clutton village south of the Farndon-Broxton road, recording this as parkland.
It is therefore clear that there was some sloppiness in the surveying of Bryant’s map, and that the differences between his and Swire and Hutchings’ map cannot always be taken as evidence for changes in the landscape in the two years between them. On the other hand, where no evidence exists to show whether Bryant’s survey is accurate, we cannot dismiss it out of hand. Certainly, his depiction of parish boundaries is close to the modern lines, following boundary changes in the late 1820s, and are frequently different from those on Swire & Hutchings’ map.
Because of the large scale, Bryant was able to name a number of minor places that are not recorded individually at an earlier date. To the northeast of the park, the pond south of Clutton Hall Farm (which is not named) is labelled Shay Green Pit (for Shaw Green Pit); part of the woodland to the south is called Clutton Cover (for Clutton Covert). Carden Cliff is named, as is Carden Farm, now Home Farm, on the Carden estate.