Tank trackways, slit trenches and foxholes associated with Second World War training activities are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of South Heath taken between 1946-47. A majority of these features have since been destroyed by modern quarrying activity in this area.
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Tank trackways, slit trenches and foxholes associated with Second World War training activities are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of Stokeford Heath taken between 1946-47 (1-3). These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. They are not visible on the most recent comprehensive aerial images available to the project, having since been destroyed by modern quarrying activity in this area.
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<1> SDO13186
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 20-FEB-1946. RAF 106G/UK/1179 3063.
<2> SDO13192
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-JAN-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3060-63.
<3> SDO13193
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-APR-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/2018 4056-57.
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Centred SY 8684 8861 (2986m by 2398m) (27 map features)
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SY88NE
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Bere Regis; Dorset
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East Stoke; Dorset
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Dorset
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Record last edited
Feb 5 2014 11:27AM
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