Monument record MDO3516 - Cultivation remains, the former Broadridge and Sandypits Fields, Ashmore

The remains of the former medieval open fields around Ashmore, enclosed in 1859. Two areas to the south of Ashmore village were known as Broadridge and Sandypits Fields.

ST 915178 Strip lynchets east of the village of Ashmore. <1-2>

Slight evidence of lyncheting in pasture field. Poorly defined on OS air photographs. <3>

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-JUL-1946, RAF 106G/UK/1654 4331-32 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18339.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 2 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(13) CULTIVATION REMAINS. The open fields were enclosed in 1859 (Map and Award, D.C.R.O.). There were three fields: North Field, on the N. of the village, and Broadridge and Sandpit Fields, on the S.; they were approximately equal in size and their combined area was only 380 acres. In addition, there was a large area on enclosed fields which, even in 1590, covered 240 acres (S.D.N.Q., x (1907), 65). Fragmentary strip lynchets which exist ¼ m. N. of the village (911184) were formerly in North Field. Other strip lynchets E. of the village (915178) lie in an area which was enclosed before 1859'.

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 16-FEB-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<3.1> Ordnance Survey, 6.6.75, OS 75/317 157-58 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18340.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209984 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 4:23PM