Monument record MDO37676 - Cultivation remains at Gummershay Farm, Stalbridge

(ST759179 DMV sited to Gomershay Farm from OS 10000 1983) <1>

The 'lost' hamlet of Gomershay is described by Hutchins as being West of Stalbridge, whilst Issac Taylor shows 'Gummersey' East of Stalbridge and 'Gomershay' to its South. <2>

Recorded in the Dorset Feet of Fire, 1315 as 'Gommereshaye'. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1983 (Map). SDO17396.

<2> Good, R, 1979, Lost Villages of Dorset, 72 (Monograph). SWX1569.

<3> Fagersten, A, 1933, Place-names of Dorset (Monograph). SDO17521.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 252 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(28) Cultivation remains. The open fields of Stalbridge lay S. and E. of the town and were probably still in existence in 1516, when a 'South Field' was recorded (Dorset Procs., LXXVII (1955), 161). Ridge-and-furrow can be seen on air photographs (R.A.F. CPE/UK 1974: 3157) N.E. of Sturt Farm (730170); it is unrelated to the present field boundaries.
The open fields of Stalbridge Weston were already enclosed in 1662 (Schedule of Land at Stalbridge Weston, D.C.R.O.). Ridge-and-furrow within existing fields, associated with the settlements of Hargrove, Marsh and Gummershay farms, is noted at 750154, 755165 and 757178; it is 6 yds. To 7 yds. wide with headlands 7 yds. wide'.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888406 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 17 2022 8:52AM