Monument record MDO7011 - Possible Deer Park, Sares Wood, Affpuddle

A park is shown immediately south of Affpuddle on Thomas Gerard's map. No other reference to a park here has been found apart from a field named "The Park" in the Tithe Apportionment which is situated ½ mile south of Affpuddle church, on the west side of the B3390 road and immediately north of Sares Wood (at SY 797925). Various banks can be found in and around Sares Wood, but none have the characteristics of a Medieval park bank; lengthy examination of the wood, neighbouring hedge lines and parish boundaries suggested very strongly that no embanked Medieval park had existed in the locality. There is also no evidence to suggest that this was the location of the lost Mansham Park. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1974, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1973, 79-80 (Serial). SDO73.

<1.1> Gerard, T (Coker, J ), 1732, A Survey of Dorsetshire. (Cartographic materials). SWX8143.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454945 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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