Monument record MDO37245 - Dorset County Boundary

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2007, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2006, 137-138 (Serial). SDO12292.

‘The Dorset-Devon boundary at Lyme runs with the bounds of the one mansion of land granted to the Sherborne church in 774 (Barker 2005, 199-204). This is defined by the Uplyme boundary of 938 re-surveyed in 1516 (Fox, 1970, 35-47). Initial findings include a large ash stool which may be the Langshereayssh of 1516. Here the county boundary takes the form of a very substantial bank which runs north from the end of Shire Lane down a steep slope, over the A3070 at what was the Black Dog Inn and on down the to the Salteforde of 938 on the River Lim.’

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Jun 29 2015 4:56PM