Monument record MDO41075 - Historic field boundary, Park Cottages, Canford Magna, Poole

A banked and ditched linear feature to the northwest of Park Cottages is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature is presumed to be a historic field boundary of possible post medieval date although an earlier origin is possible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A banked and ditched linear feature to the northwest of Park Cottages is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The feature is narrow and retilinear in form and sub-divides a historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2).

The feature is presumed to be a historic field boundary of possible post medieval date although an earlier origin is possible.

The site is part of Knighton Farm Golf Course on current Google Earth imagery and the feature is no longer visible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4159-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16009.

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

Record last edited

Jan 6 2020 11:40AM