Monument record MDO4563 - Field system, Pimperne

Cultivation remains including contour and strip lynchets, now largely destroyed or denuded, over a large area. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. A system of banked field boundaries and cultivation marks are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery in fields to the north of Nutford Farm, they are partially marked on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

A system of banked field boundaries and cultivation marks are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery [2] in fields to the north of Nutford Farm. They are partially marked on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map [3] and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 54 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(14) CULTIVATION REMAINS. Nothing remains of the open fields of Pimperne, enclosed in 1814 (Award and map in D.C.R.O.). The open fields of Nutford were in existence in 1838 (Tithe Map of Blandford Forum) and the date of their enclosure is unknown; contour and up-and-down strip lynchets, now largely ploughed down, cover a large area around N.G. 880083; in 1838 they were in Nutford Field.'

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<3> Ordnance Survey, c.1880, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map epoch one (Map). SDO18132.

Record last edited

Nov 24 2022 6:51PM