Monument record MDO42046 - 19th or 20th century chalk pits, Toller Porcorum

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A disused extractive pit (workings) is marked on the Ordnance Survey MasterMap to the west of Wollcombe Down Farm, Toller Porcorum. The site is still visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and is one of a number of extractive hollows in the vicinity which were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

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A disused extractive pit (workings) is marked on the Ordnance Survey MasterMap to the west of Wollcombe Down Farm, Toller Porcorum [1]. The site is still visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and is one of a number of extractive hollows in the vicinity which were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project [2].

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  • <1> Map: MasterMap.
  • <2> Photograph: Environment Agency. XX-XXX-2019. LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN.

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Grid reference SY 5536 9592 (point) (91 map features)
Map sheet SY59NE
Civil Parish Toller Porcorum; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Apr 22 2020 11:51AM

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