Monument record MDO4722 - Strip lynchets, Spetisbury

Traces of the former open field system of Crawford Magna in the form of the earthwork terraces of strip lynchets between the village and the railway. In 1970 these earthworks were described as very fragmentary. The last parts of the open field system in the parish were enclosed in 1809.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 246 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(29) CULTIVATION REMAINS. Two of the three open-field systems in the parish were not enclosed until 1809 (Enclosure Award D.C.R.O.). Five strip lynchets of the open fields of Spetisbury lie immediately S.E. of Home Plantation (909025). Very fragmentary contour strip lynchets of the open fields of Crawford Magna remain on the river cliff between the village and the railway (91550215-91780192); on the Tithe Map of 1839 part of these fields is called ‘The Hanging’. Other slight traces lie within Spetisbury Rings and to the S.E. (917017). Of the open fields of Middle Street no trace remains.’

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Dec 7 2012 11:00AM