Monument record MDO5753 - Enclosure at White House Holding, Holt Heath, Holt

A group of enclosures on Holt Heath. The enclosures are documented to have extended over about 100 acres near the site of a house that existed in 1811 but which had gone by 1845 and local tradition records as White House Holdings. Traces of up to five enclosures were recorded in this area during the Dorset Stour NMP being visible on aerial photographs.

A group of enclosures on Holt Heath. The enclosures are documented to have extended over about 100 acres near the site of a house that existed in 1811 but which had gone by 1845 and local tradition records as White House Holdings. Traces of up to five enclosures were recorded in this area during the Dorset Stour NMP being visible on aerial photographs (2-4).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 34 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(31) ENCLOSURES (around 058040), on Holt Heath, extend to about 100 acres. The earthworks lie near the site of a house which existed in 1811 (O.S., 1811), but which had gone by 1845 (Tithe Map, Wimborne Minster); local tradition records its name as White House Holding. The former house is represented by a disturbed rectangular area (05860410), 30 ft. by 15 ft., defined by crumbling cob walls 2 ft. high, set in a paddock of about 3 acres, bounded by a low bank. Adjacent on the S. and W. are traces of at least six rectangular enclosures, from 5 acres to 20 acres bounded by low banks with external ditches; one of them has traces of ridge-and-furrow 5 yds. wide. None of these enclosures is marked on any known map and they must have been abandoned before 1811.'

<2> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

<3> Royal Air Force, 31-AUG-1959, RAF 543/1859 F21 0415-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16156.

<4> Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1845 V 5027-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16155.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213146 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 9 2023 8:25AM