Place record MWX27 - Osmington Parish

Osmington is recorded as a village in the Domesday Book. The field name 'Crocklynch' recorded in 1318 may indicate that pottery was manufactured here (Spoerry 1988).

Osmington is recorded as a village in the Domesday Book as 'Osmentone' (Hinde 2002).

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 603 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Part of a hand-moulded clay prop (in D.C.M.) probably from salt-boiling, comes from an unrecorded site on the cliffs at Osmington (Dorset Procs. LXXXIV (1962), 115).’

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 126 (Serial). SDO84.

‘Alison Nailer of the Dorset Institute of Higher Education carried out an archaeological survey of the parish of Osmington. Microfiche copies are deposited in the County Museum, the archaeological archive of the County Planning Department and at the Dorset Institute.’

Hinde, Thomas (ed ), 2002, The Domesday Book: England's Heritage, then and now (Monograph). SWX8439.

<1> Spoerry, P, 1988, Documentary and other evidence for medieval and post-medieval ceramic production in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 110, 33 (Article in serial). SWX809.

’27. Osmington. Mills (1977, 216) records a 1818 field name in this parish as ‘Crocklynch’. This can be interpreted as meaning ‘a ridge or bank where potsherds were found’.’

<1.1> Mills, A D, 1977, The place-names of Dorset, Part 1: the Isle of Purbeck, the hundreds of Rowbarrow, Hasler, Winfrith, Culliford Tree, Bere Regis, Barrow, Puddletown St George, 216 (Monograph). SWX972.

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