Monument record MDO38741 - Post medieval extractive pit or millpond, Sandpit Flax Mill, Burstock

The site of a post medieval extractive pit or possible millpond to the southeast of Sandpit Flax Mill, Burstock, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s and on the latest Lidar imagery. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

The site of a post medieval extractive pit or possible millpond to the southeast of Sandpit Flax Mill, Burstock, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and on the latest Lidar imagery (2). An oval depression around 86m long is visible on an aerial photograph of 1947 (1) to the south of the mill pond, which is shown on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The depression may represent the sandpit after which the mill (NMR ST 40 SW 39; Hob UID 1305053) was named, or alternatively this may have been a second millpond, or re-used as such, as it lies adjacent to the sluices and mill race. A banked linear across the centre of the depression present in 1947 (1) is still in use as a modern path or trackway (4). The site is still visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (4). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 1305053 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1889 (Map). SWX1197.

1:2500, Dorset Sheet XIX.6, 1889.

<3> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4406-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14802.

<4> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/063 South West Textile Mills Project, RCH01/063 (Unpublished document). SDO17323.

South West Textile Mills Project

<6> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4203dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2022 11:24AM