Monument record MDO41139 - Possible post medieval field boundaries, Knighton, Poole

Ditched linear features to the southwest of Knighton are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features may be historic field boundaries of probable post medieval to early modern date. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features to the southwest of Knighton are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features are narrow and rectilinear in form and they sub-divide a historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map whose slightly sinuous boundaries may be medieval in origin; its northeast boundary is more rectilinear in form and likely to reflect post medieval sub-division or reorganisation (2).

The features may also be historic field boundaries of probable post medieval to early modern date.

The site is redeveloped as a possible vehicle race track on current Google Earth imagery and the features are no longer visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 08-MAR-45, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3023-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16033.

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

Record last edited

Jan 6 2020 11:03AM