Monument record MDO41458 - Post medieval drainage system, Henbury Farm, Sturminster Marshall

Linear ditched and banked features associated with a post medieval drainage system to the east of Henbury Farm are visible on aerial photographs. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Linear ditched and banked features associated with a post medieval drainage system to the east of Henbury Farm are visible on aerial photographs (1-4). Some of the features appear to extend beyond and below the Somerset and Dorset Railway running along the northern edge of the site, indicating that at least some of the features pre-date its construction.

The site is still open fields on current Google Earth imagery. Many of the features are still viisble. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3245-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16134.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5196-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16144.

<3> BKS Surveys Ltd, 07-FEB-68, BKS/3161 V 629400-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16138.

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

Record last edited

Aug 23 2018 2:01PM