Monument record MDO41713 - Undated enclosure, Ferndown

A large elongated rectilinear enclosure (450m by 95m) is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1954 on rough-ground to the south west of King Georges Playing Field, Ferndown. Fragments of an internal system of smaller fields are visible. The enclosure is marked on the OS 1st edition map as well as the modern mapping. It is no longer in use and considered to be part of a wider field system (MDO41714) to the north which may be of medieval or even earlier origin. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A large elongated rectilinear enclosure (450m by 95m) is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1954 on rough-ground to the south west of King George's Playing Field, Ferndown. Fragments of an internal system of smaller fields are visible. The enclosure is marked on the 1:25-inch scale Ordnance Survey map published around 1888 as well as the modern mapping. It is no longer in use and considered to be part of a wider field system (MDO41714) to the north which may be of medieval or even earlier origin. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1, Dorset XXXV.7 Surveyed: 1877, Published: ca.1888 (Map). SDO10239.

Ordnance Survey, 01-JUN-1981, OS/81016 V 273-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16245.

Royal Air Force, 21-SEP-1954, RAF 58/1567 F21 0234-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16244.

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Oct 27 2025 11:30AM