Monument record MDO46622 - Post medieval chalk pit, Bailie House, Sturminster Marshall

A post medieval extractive pit to the southwest of Bailie House, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is marked but not named on the OS 1st Edition map but is considered likely to be an old chalk pit. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval extractive pit to the southwest of Bailie House, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is marked but not named on the OS 1st Edition map but is considered likely to be an old chalk pit. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1, Dorset XXXIV.10 Revised: 1885, Published: 1888 (Map). SDO10239.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 2, Dorset XXXIV.10 Revised: 1900, Published: 1901 (Map). SDO11594.

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

Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5137 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19960.

Record last edited

Sep 23 2025 3:21PM