Monument record MDO536 - Attisham Deer Park, Broadwindsor

Historic documents refer to a deer park at Attisham in AD 1290. The exact site is not known, but a field here is called 'Park' in the tithe apportionment.

(Centred ST 395012) A deer-park at Attisham was in existence by AD 1290, when 'perturbers of the King's peace broke the park of Edmund Everard at Adesham by force of arms and hunted the deer.' It was briefly recorded in 1343, but was not mentioned in the 1583 Certificate as to Parks in Dorset.

The exact site is not known, but a field on the north side of the road immediately east of Birdsmoor Gate, is named 'Park' in the Tithe Apportionment and it is suggested that the park was bounded on the south by the B3164 road, on the west by the B3165, on the east by Attisham Lane, and to the north by the medieval track south of Pilsdon Pen.

No earthworks have been identified. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1971, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1970, 205-206 (Serial). SDO70.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 191507 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 11 2022 11:50AM