Monument record MDO40493 - Historic trackway, Wimborne St Giles

A ditched linear feature to the northwest of Manor House, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark on current Lidar imagery. The feature is considered to be a trackway of probable medieval or post medieval origin, although an earlier date is possible. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A ditched linear feature to the northwest of Manor House, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark on current Lidar imagery (1). The feature runs SSE to NNW. At its southeast end it adjoins and aligns with a historic trackway present on the OS 1st Edition map (2). That trackway then heads northwest along the side of a field. This feature continues north northwest, continuing under a wide hedged field boundary towards a small historic farmstead. The feature is considered to be a trackway of probable medieval or post medieval origin, although an earlier date is possible as it is located adjacent to the northwest of a possible Iron Age or Romano-British field system (MDO40491). A trackway possibly associated with that system (but potentially of later origin) may have a junction at its southwest end with this trackway and the one shown on the OS 1st Edition map (2). The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Record last edited

Mar 26 2018 11:34AM