Monument record MDO38919 - Historic field system and farmstead, Marshwood Manor, Marshwood

Field boundaries associated with the removed post medieval farmstead of Merryfields are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs to the south of Marshwood Manor. The farmstead is marked on the OS 1st edition map. Bank and ditched field boundaries and trackways were digitally plotted across an area of 100ha during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Field boundaries associated with the removed post medieval farmstead of Merryfields are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs to the south of Marshwood Manor (1-2). The farmstead is marked on the OS 1st edition map (3). Bank and ditched field boundaries and trackways were digitally plotted across an area of 100ha during the Marshwood Vale NMP. An irregular enclosure surrounds an orchard marked on the 1st edition map.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1411-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14800.

<2> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph, SY3999.ecw (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

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

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 1:18PM