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Priests House Museum

Wimborne.

Indoor Meeting

Wednesday 6 February, - 10.00 for 10.30am
Location: Meetings Room at Priests House Museum, 23-27 High Street, Wimborne. BH21 1HR. SZ009999

Further to my earlier note a pleasure to confirm arrangements for our forthcoming indoor meeting on Wednesday 6 February, 10 for 10.30, when we will be joined by Roger Goulding of the Cranborne Chase AONB to take forward to the next stage the conservation/way-marking et cetera of the historic length of the county boundary which traverses the designated arear of the AONB. We shall be taking as our ‘type-site’ that length of boundary between Shermal Gate and Garston Wood which ‘runs’ with the bounds recorded in the tenth-century charters for both the manors of Chalke (Wiltshire) and Handley (Dorset); a length registered as the ‘Shire Rack.’ Led by KB, GH, AM and RW.

Roger has confirmed the booking of the Meetings Room at the Priests House Museum in Wimborne. Its address is 23-27 High Street, Wimborne BH21 1HR, and is sited towards the western end of the High Street opposite the Minster. The nearest [Pay and Display] car park is the High Street Car Park behind the Museum [Hanham Road?] (accessible, as I recall, by a footpath through to the High Street) located along the north bank – the town side – of the River Allen beside the A349 from Poole where it crosses the bridge into the town – on into the High Street.

Possible Wimborne Car Parks. King Street, BH21 1UN, Hanham Road BH21 1LN following the one way system. Or use Parkopedia website

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KB will bring along coffee/tea et cetera. Roger will bring along a laptop/projector and in support of our maps and pencils we will be able to take a virtual walk along the AONB/DCB ‘length,’ photos kindly assembled by MF. Do join us all for what promises to be a very interesting, forward-looking, far-reaching (OE racu ‘reach,’ today’s ‘rack’) morning.

Also look forward to catching up with matters further to the DCB 2019 programme – and am sure we will be able to find somewhere close by for a light pub lunch after the meeting.

Very best wishes – and don’t hesitate to get in touch further to ideas – or queries. Katherine

Shire Rack along the Dorset/Wiltshire border

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Cranborne Chase AONB Joint Landscape Partnership

It was the Cranborne Chase AONB Joint Landscape Partnership Workshop held on 23 November 2017 in Sixpenny Handley that drew attention to that wider county-based heritage. As noted above, this area is described as ‘overlapping’ four counties and which includes those distinctive lengths of the DCB explored by GH and AM. Both have conducted further research and written up papers respectively on Handley/Chalke and Ringwood/Damerham A-S charter bounds – and which remain ‘on hold,’ publication pending. It was shortly after launching the DCB survey (prompted by the Up/Lyme length) that KB held a short-term contract at the AONB as to research and write-up the medieval deer parks of this designated area – her attention almost immediately drawn to the fact that the AONB ‘embraced’ many miles of historic shire boundary and which (like the Up/Lyme length) had hitherto seemed to have escaped attention.

Next Meeting

3 April will be a field meeting at Kingsettle Wood so please note the information below.

The activities of our Research Group are organised informally, and by joining in any of our outdoor events you do so entirely at your own risk, and we accept no liability for those who participate. If you wish to join us you are reminded that you must rely on your own ability and experience to gauge the difficulty and severity of the activity and the route or terrain involved, and you will be responsible for your own safety at all times. Any decision to continue or discontinue any walk or activity at any point is entirely your own choice, and you are reminded that you should have appropriate clothing, rainwear and footwear, and carry sun protection, food and drink adequate for the weather and the duration of the walk or excursion.

c 1886 mapping. Nominal 1:10,000
Sheet	Description	Boundary	Dorset Parish	Other Parish	link	KB size	date
1	Map index for below		Handley	Bower Chalke, Wiltshire	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	518
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c 1886 mapping. Nominal 1:2,500
Sheet	Description		Dorset Parish	Other Parish	link	KB size	date
3989-1191	Shermel Gate		Handley	Bower Chalke, Wiltshire	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	373	1886
3993-1193	Mistleberry Camp		Handley	Bower Chalke, Wiltshire	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	267	1886
3997-1193	Sessions Gate		Handley	Bower Chalke, Wiltshire	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	250	1886
4001-1193	Pribdean Wood		Handley	Bower Chalke, Wiltshire	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	273	1886
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c 1886 mapping. Nominal 1:125,000
Sheet	Description	Dorset	Other	link	MB size	date
1	Cranfield Chase area of East Dorset. Border parishes and Turnpike roads.	Cranborne Chase	OS 6in base	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	2.16	C.1886
2	Cranfield Chase area of East Dorset. Border parishes and Turnpike roads.	Cranborne Chase	Relief map	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	2.32	C.1886
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Additional Information
Sheet	Description	Dorset	Author	link	KB size	date
1	Cranborne Chase AONB HLF-funded Landscape Partnership project bullet points on areas of shared interest	East Dorset	Roger Goulding	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	436	2018

Cranborne Chase

Cranborne Chase

Forests and Chases of England and Wales

Cranborne Chase

Mapping attributed to Thomas Aldwell, 1618, and an 18th century revison by Richard Harding

Cranborne Chase - 1618 & 18th Century.

OS - 2in drawing, early 19th C

Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire border

The British Library copies include the Shaftesbury and Cranborne in Dorset and Berwick St. John in Wiltshire.

Shaftesbury, 1808

Berwick St. John, 1807

Cranborne

The British Library

Cranborne, 1807

Cranborne Chase AONB

Cranborne Chase

HLC project for the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers 380 square miles of Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Cranborne Chase AONB

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