Monument record MDO46691 - Probable post medieval extractive pit, Old Rectory Wood, Morden

A probable post medieval extractive pit within Old Rectory Wood, Morden, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is most likely a chalk or gravel pit. The feature is shown but not named on the OS 1st Edition map and is recorded as a pond on an OS map dated 1955. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A probable post medieval extractive pit within Old Rectory Wood, Morden, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature is most likely a chalk or gravel pit. The feature is shown but not named on the OS 1st Edition map and is recorded as a pond on an OS map dated 1955 [3, 4]. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5132 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19936.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<4> Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1955, Ordnance Survey Epocha5_2500 (Map). SDO18568.

Record last edited

Jul 13 2023 2:43PM