Monument record MDO41260 - Post medieval drainage ditches, Knighton House, Poole

Ditched linear features to the northeast of Knighton House are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be a post medieval drainage ditches that link in to a long post medieval drainage channel recorded on the OS 1st Edition map.They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features to the northeast of Knighton House is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1 and 2).

The features comprise a series of shorter and longer sections of linear ditches that link in with a long curvilinear drainage channel recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The features are presumed to also be drainage ditches of probable post medieval date.

The site is still open ground on current Google Earth imagery. The features are still partly visible on a 2014 aerial photograph (4). They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 08-MAR-45, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3026-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16079.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FP 1156-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16083.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<4> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

Record last edited

Jan 6 2020 10:38AM