Monument record MDO5226 - Strip lynchets, Winterbourne Houghton

Strip lynchets along the south side of the Winterborne valley, part of the open field system of the parish. In 1776 four open fields still remained partly unenclosed and these lynchets were part of Croft Field and Whiteway Field.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 298 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(8) Cultivation Remains. In 1776 four open fields still remained partly unenclosed (Map of Winterborne Houghton, D.C.R.O.); they were named North Field, Little Field, Croft Field and Whiteway Field. Elsewhere, other isolated strips remained within enclosed fields. On the S. side of the Winterborne valley (810036–818043) ten contour strip lynchets are arranged in four end-on furlongs up to 250 yds. long; at their S.W. ends they run into 'Celtic' fields (see Group (53)); in 1776 they were strips in Whiteway and Croft Fields. The strips have been partly erased from the map of 1776 but are faintly visible. …’

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