Monument record MDO19546 - Wakeham Quarries South, Portland

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Site. South part of Wakeham Quarries, cut off by Easton & Church Hope Railway in 1900. This triangular area was being quarried in 1901. By 1926-27 this was also an area for waste stone tipping. Now part of a nature reserve.

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Site. South part of Wakeham Quarries, cut off by Easton & Church Hope Railway in 1900. This triangular area was being quarried in 1901. (1) By 1926-27 this was also an area for waste stone tipping. (2) Now part of a nature reserve.


<1> Ordnance Survey, 1901, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.15 (Map). SDO10268.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1929, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.15 (Map). SDO10269.

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  • <1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1901. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.15.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1929. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.15.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SY 6945 7124 (189m by 143m)
Map sheet SY67SE
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Mar 26 2012 10:30AM

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