Monument record MDO2102 - Deserted medieval settlement at Friar Waddon, Portesham

Friar Waddon was a medieval manor and hamlet but is now only a farm. Fragments of this shrunken hamlet are still visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs.

Friar Waddon was anciently a manor and hamlet but is now only a farm. At Domesday Friar Waddon was held by the French nunnery of St Mary, Montevilliers {1}.

Fragments of this shrunken medieval hamlet are still visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs {2-7}. Remains comprise of banks, ditches, holloways and trackways and were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<3> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<4> Royal Air Force, 17-1-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1063-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11906.

<5> NMR SY6485/2 (CCC 11759/5773) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11934.

<6> 15-2-2005, NMR SY6485/7 (23796/4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11931.

<7> 29-7-1997, DCC 2297 0261 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11935.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452504 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 27 2022 4:38PM