Monument record MDO538 - Horn Park, Broadwindsor

(Centred ST 462024) A deer park on the southern slopes of Horn Hill was described in a survey of 1628 as covering some 70 acres, paled in with cleft pales of oak and containing a park lodge.

Foxholes Cottages (ST 46300270), now demolished, may mark the site of the lodge. The east and north-east park boundary probably ran along the parish boundary from Horn Park Farm through Clay
Coppice to Fox-holes Cottage, then past Foxholes Plantation to join the stream running first south-west and then south-east around Horn Park Coppice, and back to Horn Park Farm.

Apart from some insignificant banks along the parish boundary the suggested line is not embanked, and in the absence of typical park earthworks and of an earlier reference than 1628, a Medieval
origin for Horn Park remains conjectural. <2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1980, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1978, 33 (Serial). SDO78.

<1.1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 128-9 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<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Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document).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, 193055 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 14 2022 4:48PM