Monument record MDO5301 - Medieval strip lynchets, Winterborne Stickland

The remains of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery at the west end of Winterborne Stickland. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A block of four contour strip lynchets surviving as earthworks. Part of the open field system around Winterborne Stickland. A map of 1771 shows these in 'Western Furlong' in the south-eastern part of South Field <1>
The remains of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery at the west end of Winterborne Stickland <2>. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 309 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(17) CULTIVATION REMAINS. Although the open fields of Winterborne Stickland were not enclosed until 1802 (Enclosure Award, D.C.R.O.) they appear to have been subject to re-organisation in the 18th century. In 1735 they were divided into five separate fields (Map of Milton Abbas and Stickland, D.C.R.O.) but by 1771 the same area had only three fields (Map of Milton Abbas and Stickland by W. Woodward, see above, p 183). . . . Another group of four well preserved strip lynchets lies on the S. side of the Winterborne valley, 550 yds. S.W. of the church; in 1771 they were called 'Western Furlong' in the S.E. part of South Field. . . . '

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Apr 25 2023 7:01PM