Monument record MDO39778 - Post medieval or early 20th drainage system, Verwood Manor Farm, Verwood

Four field units of parallel ditched features are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 on the banks of the River Crane north west of Verwood Manor Farm. The features are considered likely to be drainage features of 19th or early 20th century origin, they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Four field units of parallel ditched features are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 on the banks of the River Crane north west of Verwood Manor Farm (Royal Air Force 1946). The features are considered likely to be drainage features of 19th or early 20th century origin, they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. A small portion of the site was destroyed during remodelling for a fish pond, the rest is still visdible as extant earthworks under trees on lidar imagery (DCC 2002; Environment Agency 2015).

Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1845 RS 4024-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15610.

Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

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Aug 28 2026 4:26PM