Monument record MDO41320 - Probable post medieval trackway, Coneygar Lane, Ferndown Town

A ditched curvilinear feature on the east side of Coneygar Lane is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature is considered likely to be a post medieval trackway. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A ditched linear feature on the east side of Coneygar Lane is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The feature is narrow and curvilinear in form and runs from south to north and then northeast, following the line of a historic field boundary to its west. The feature is considered likely to be a historic trackway, probably of post medieval date.

The site is still open fields on current Google Earth imagery. The feature is still faintly visible, partiularly in 2012 (2). It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-45, RAF/106G/LA/187 RP 3043-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16090.

<2> Google Earth, 01-JUN-2012, Google Earth 2012 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12633.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2018 11:24AM