Monument record MDO7811 - Medieval settlement at West Morden, Morden

Earthworks of settlement remains, part of the medieval village of West Morden, and situated to the south-east of the present village. Banked and ditched earthworks and linear features are visible at West Morden are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. A further area of shrunken medieval settlement to the west is recorded under MDO46887.

The remains of the settlement that once existed at SY 906952, have been reduced by ploughing to a few minor scarps which present no identifiable pattern. <2>

Banked and ditched earthworks and linear features are visible at West Morden are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs <4>. The features comprise the remains of probable former tofts and boundaries within a large field, positioned on the north side of a sub-circular pond, recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and on an OS map dated 1955 <5, 6>. Further linear banked field boundaries are visible in fields to the west and north. They are considered likely to be associated with an area of shrunken medieval village on the southeast side of West Morden. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A further area of shrunken medieval settlement to the west is recorded under MDO46887.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 173 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(51) Settlement Remains (906952), of former part of West Morden village, cover 2 acres 300 yds. S.E. of the present village but are very fragmentary (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 4132).’

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 16-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<4> Royal Air Force, 05-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3080 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20025.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<6> Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1955, Ordnance Survey Epocha5_2500 (Map). SDO18568.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457338 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 12:15PM