Monument record MDO40487 - Historic field system, Manor Farm, Horton

An extensive system of bank and ditched field boundaries and drainage features of medieval or later date are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and on lidar imagery in fields to the east of Manor Farm, Horton. The features may relate to the Benedictine Horton Priory which lay immediately to the west in the vicinity of the parish church; they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

An extensive system of bank and ditched field boundaries and drainage features of medieval or later date are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and on lidar imagery in fields to the east of Manor Farm, Horton (1-2). The features may relate to the Benedictine Horton Priory which lay immediately to the west in the vicinity of the parish church; they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. The field system covers an area of 1000m by 500m and continues to the east (MDO40488) and to the south (MDO40479).

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3083-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15827.

<2> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

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