Monument record MDO45678 - Post medieval brickworks, St Leonard's Farm, Lytchett Minster

A post medieval brickworks north of St Leonard's Farm, Lytchett Minster, is visible as earthworks and structures on 1940s aerial photographs. A brickworks is documented on the OS 1st and 2nd Edition maps. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval brickworks north of St Leonard's Farm, Lytchett Minster, is visible as earthworks and structures on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. The aerial photograph dated 1948 shows an irregular extractive pit with two ruined structures, probably brick kilns documented on the OS 1st and 2nd Edition maps [2, 3]. These two mpas document the site as a brickworks. The OS 3rd Edition map shows earthworks but no structures [4]. The OS a5-2500 Epoch map dated 1955 also shows earthworks, part of which are a pond by that time [5]. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 01-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4085 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19459.

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

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

<5> Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1955, Ordnance Survey Epocha5_2500 (Map). SDO18568.

Record last edited

Feb 21 2023 2:20PM