Monument record MDO49726 - Historic flood defences and sluice, Child Okeford, Shillingstone

A line of broken and deteriorated banked linear earthworks are visible either side of a bend in the River Stour on the border of Child Okeford and Shillingstone parishes on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features on both sides of the river terminate at a sluice featured on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map of c1880 and still visible in 1947. On the south side the features extend along a tributary of the river as far as the former Bere Marsh corn mill (MDO26056). They might be levees or flood defences of possibly post medieval origin, although a medieval date is also possible. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A line of broken and deteriorated banked linear earthworks are visible either side of a bend in the River Stour on the border of Child Okeford and Shillingstone parishes on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; EA 2018). The features on both sides of the river terminate at a sluice featured on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map of c1880 and also visible as a structure in 1947 (OS c1880; RAF 1947). On the south side two of the banked features extend along a tributary of the river as far as the former Bere Marsh corn mill (MDO26056). The earthworks are also shown on the OS Epoch 1 map and might be levees or flood defences of possibly post medieval origin, although a medieval date is also feasible. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1 (Map). SDO10239.

Royal Air Force, 16-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1924 RS 4325 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21493.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

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Dec 1 2025 1:33PM