Monument record MDO41274 - Post medieval drainage ditches, Hampreston, Ferndown Town

Ditched linear features in fields to the south of Hampreston are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be post medieval drainage ditches. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features in fields to the south of Hampreston are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features are narrow and rectilinear in form and appear to link in to large post medieval drainage channels recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2) or extend towards the river's edge. The features are presumed to be post medieval drainage ditches.

The site is still fields on current Google Earth imagery but the features are no longer visible. They were 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

Aug 29 2024 3:51PM