Monument record MDO3462 - Wynford Eagle Deer Park

Medieval deer-park at Wynford Eagle, most of the area now occupied by Wynford Wood. The park pale associated with the park is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery.

(Centred SY 571964) Medieval deer-park at Wynford Eagle enclosing about 115 acres, most of the area occupied by Wynford Wood. There is scanty documentary evidence but the earliest known reference to the park is in 1279 and the last in 1586. The park pale is mainly well preserved and there was apparently a ditch on the inside although in most places there are only faint traces of this now. (For further details see annotated map). <1-2>

SY 568963. Wynford Wood boundary bank. Scheduled. <3-4>

Track widening by the Forestry Commission enabled a section across thebank and ditch of the park pale to be examined. <5>

Medieval deer-park at Wynford Eagle, most of the area now occupied by Wynford Wood. The park pale associated with the park is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery <6> and was plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valleys AIM Project.

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 697, 707 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Cantor, L M, and Wilson, J D, 1963, The Medieval Deer-Parks of Dorset II; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO13206.

<3> Department of the Environment, DOE (IAM) Ancient Monuments Record Form, March 1973 (Index). SDO17347.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 80 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<5> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1982, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1981, 126 (Serial). SDO81.

<6> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450752 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 18 2024 1:37PM