Monument record MDO41259 - Post medieval drainage ditch, Knighton House, Poole

A ditched curvilinear feature to the northeast of Knighton House is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature is presumed to be a post medieval drainage ditch. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A ditched curvilinear feature to the northeast of Knighton House is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The feature comprise a curving narrow ditch around 90m in length, which corresponds with the north end of a similar linear feature recorded on the OS 1st Edition map, thought to be a long drainage channel, probably of post medieval origin (2). The ditched linear feature continues the line of this drainage ditch, curving around to the west where it is possibly truncated by a post medieval field boundary; a shorter section of what may be the same ditch is faintly visible continuing towards the Stour riverbank (1). This feature is not recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and its contemporaneity with the longer channel shown on that map is not known.

The site is still open ground on current Google Earth imagery but the feature is no longer visible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FP 1156-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16083.

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

Record last edited

Jan 6 2020 10:38AM