Monument record MDO38869 - Post medieval dewpond or possible extractive pit, Higher Park Farm, Broadwindsor

A post medieval dewpond or possible extractive pit to the east of Higher Park Farm, Broadwindsor, 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.

A post medieval dewpond or possible extractive pit to the east of Higher Park Farm, Broadwindsor, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and on the latest Lidar imagery (2). The site is shown on the OS 1st Edition map (3) and is not marked as a quarry, despite being in an area of old chalk pits and quarries, suggesting this is a dewpond. The site is still faintly visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (4). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4404-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14823.

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4403dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

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

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 12:31PM