EDO5464 - East Borough, Wimborne Minster; desk-based assessment 1998

A desk-based assessment to consider the impact of proposed development. The site is in a position on East Borough which was part of a thirteenth-century suburb development. A map of 1613 shows buildings on the East Borough frontage; the map is stylised in nature, and thus cannot be taken as indicating medieval occupation. The tenurial history of the site can be traced back to the late sixteenth century, but does not provide evidence of any specific activity on the site. The site is part of the Kingston Lacy Estate; estate and manorial records in the Dorset History Centre (Bankes Archive DRO D/BKL) could not be consulted as part of this exercise. Available documentary evidence proved ambiguous. It was not possible to say whether the plot contained one or more houses before around 1750, but it did appear to have been formed from two medieval burgage plots, and to have been part of a larger landholding with consistent and unchanging boundaries at least from 1590. It may have been the sixteenth-century or earlier holding of Mansted, or the close of Robert Collis, or one of the other holdings referred to in 1591 and 1714 surveys.