Monument record MDO40636 - Post medieval drainage ditches, Rowlands, Wimborne Minster

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Summary

Ditched linear features in fields at Rowlands are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be post medieval drainage ditches. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

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Ditched linear features in fields at Rowlands are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1). The features are situated either side of an artificial leat or stream channel present on the OS 1st Edition map (2). They are presumed to be post medieval drainage ditches. The site is redeveloped as housing on current Google Earth imagery and the featuresare no longer visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 12-DEC-46. RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4102-3.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1864, 1886. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one. paper. 1:2500.

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Grid reference SU 0119 0032 (point) (19 map features)
Map sheet SU00SW
Civil Parish Wimborne Minster; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Apr 13 2018 1:37PM

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