Place record MDO48240 - Pulham

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1966, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1965, 251 (Serial). SDO65.

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 231 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘The parish covers 2,416 acres, sloping gently up from 230 ft. above sea-level in the N.E. to nearly 400 ft. in the S.W. It is drained by the R. Lydden and a tributary of the Caundle Brook. Most of the land is on Oxford Clay with patches of Plateau Gravel, but the S. and S.W. parts are on Corallian Beds. Two large settlements, East Pulham and West Pulham, occupying the two largest patches of gravel, were already in existence at the time of the Domesday survey. Farms grew up beyond the open fields during the later middle ages; Grange Farm, 'Grangiam Abbatis de Byneden', is recorded in 1237 and others, such as Cannings Court and Pellwell Farm, probably came into existence at about the same time.’

Spoerry, P, 1988, Documentary and other evidence for medieval and post-medieval ceramic production in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 33 (Article in serial). SWX809.

’33. Pulham. Mills (1971, 67) mentions a resident of the parish by the name of Johanne Crocker.’

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