Monument record MDO40888 - Post medieval drainage system, Grange, Holt

A series of interlinking ditched linear features at Grange are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be a post medieval drainage system with a central curvilinear features possibly having a dual function as a field boundary. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A series of interlinking ditched linear features at Grange are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).


The features are presumed to be a post medieval drainage system with a central curvilinear features possibly having a dual function as a field boundary.

The features occupy the whole of an irregular historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2). The features are predominantly narrow and rectilinear in form, comprising a series of parallel southwest to northeast aligned linear ditches offsetting and perpendicular to a central curvilinear ditch.

The features are presumed to be a post medieval drainage system with the central curvilinear ditch possibly having a dual function as a field boundary.

The site is still open ground on current Google Earth imagery and the features are still faintly visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3103-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15953.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

May 10 2018 9:45AM