Monument record MDO37246 - Dorset County Boundary (Motcombe)

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2008, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2007-2008, 210 (Serial). SDO12293.

‘At Kingsettle Wood north of Shaftesbury the modern administrative boundary has moved eastwards from the ridge of the wood to the A350 – a road too dangerous to survey. A substantial earth bank measuring 8m wide and 1.5m high runs along the eastern side of a north-south ride through the wood, forming the former county boundary and also today’s Euro-constituency boundary (Plate 3). There is a veteran ash on the northern boundary perhaps 300 years old together with other veteran trees on the wood’s boundary. The wood was cleared during the 19th century and is today mainly beech, sycamore, silver birch and ash plantation, together with the occasional oak and spruce. To the west is the area covering the Royal Forest of Gillingham. To the north-west, a yew marks the county and parish boundary of Sedgehill and Motcombe just west of Peake Farm.’

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Jun 29 2015 5:29PM