Monument record MDO40686 - Historic settlement earthworks, New Town, Witchampton

Low earthwork scarps are visible on lidar imagery to the south of New Town, Witchampton. They are possibly the remains of medieval or later field boundaries or settlement earthworks amd were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. New Town was established in the late eighteenth century to accommodate people displaced when a landscape park was created at Crichel.

New Town was established in the second half of the 18th century to accomodate the inhabitants of Moor Crichel, displaced in the making of Crichel Park. Only one of the original buildings is thought to survive. <1>

Low earthwork scarps are visible on lidar imagery to the south of New Town, Witchampton <3>. They are possibly the remains of medieval or later field boundaries or settlement earthworks amd were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 104 (Monograph). SDO129.

'New Town, about ½ mile N.E. of Witchampton village, was established in the second half of the 18th century to accommodate the inhabitants of Moor Crichel (p. 44), displaced in the making of Crichel Park. '

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1977 (Map). SDO17396.

(Centred ST 996070) New Town (NAT)

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209312 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2023 10:11AM