Monument record MWX3023 - Post medieval limestone quarrying, Eastington Farm, Worth Matravers

Limestone quarry at Corfe Castle Estate. (1) A dispersed area of limestone quarrying and extraction to the south-west of Eastington Farm. Shallow extractive pits and an area of disturbed ground are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar (2-4). The features were digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Papworth M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 65 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

The remains of limestone quarries are visible across the west facing slope of Seacombe Bottom 300m south-east of Eastington Farm. The disused quarry working occupy an area of approximately 300m from north to south and 150m east to west. The name of this area in 1775 (Woodward) was Great Eweleaze but none of the quarries mentioned in the three sets of accounts surviving within the Bankes Archive (1725-6, 1771-2, 1809-11) mention quarries in this land area. The quarries were no longer in use by 1891 the publication date of the first detailed O.S. map.

<2> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<3> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<4> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA187 3006-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12787.

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Jan 17 2019 10:33AM