Monument record MDO46807 - Post medieval drainage system, World's End, Morden

Ditched linear features to the south of World's End, Morden, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features link with a historic water channel or sluice recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and are considered likely to be part of a post medieval drainage system. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Ditched linear features to the south of World's End, Morden, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs, and faintly on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2, 3]. The features link with a historic water channel or sluice recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and are considered likely to be part of a post medieval drainage system. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 05-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 RS 4080 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19966.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2132 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19964.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Jul 19 2023 1:43PM