Monument record MDO41350 - Post medieval trackway, Longham, Ferndown Town

A ditched curvilinear feature at Longham is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature is presumed to be a historic trackway of probable post medieval date. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A ditched curvilinear feature at Longham is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The feature follows the outward curve of a small neck of land on the north bank of the Rive Stour. At its northwest end it adjoins the end of a historic trackway recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2).

The feature is also presumed to be a historic trackway of probable post medieval origin.

The site is under trees on Google Earth imagery and the feature is no longer visible, although there is a suggestion of the feature on current Lidar imagery (3). The feature was digitally plotted from 1940s aerial photographs by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3206-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16102.

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

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

Record last edited

Jul 30 2018 9:34AM