Monument record MDO5325 - Lynchets, Winterborne Whitechurch

Traces of the medieval open field system of Whatcombe can be seen north east of Whatcombe Farm, in the form of at least ten contour strip lynchets. Parallel strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

Parallel strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM <2>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 313 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(18) Cultivation remains. The date of the enclosure of the three open field systems in the parish is unknown. Strip fields of Whatcombe remain in two places: on either side of the Winterborne brook and around Higher Whatcombe. … N.E. and S.E. of Whatcombe Farm (840020 and 842015) are the fragmentary remains of at least ten strip lynchets.’

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

Record last edited

Apr 26 2023 8:00PM