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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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Cranborne

Revisit to Cheater's Gate

Wednesday 19 October 2016
10.00am for a 10.30am start

We will meet in the car park at: Churchill Arms, Daggons Road, Fordingbridge, SP6 3AA This pub is on the B3078 and where we met on our previous visit to the area."

Parking is restricted so car share may be necessary depending on numbers. Likely to be wet underfoot. This field trip will explore the SE corner of the manor where the charter boundary leaves the Hawkhill Ditch (the modern course of the county boundary) and rises up to the high point of a hill named King’s Barrow.

Further Details from Andrew in this linked PDF (696k).

Cranborne - South Damerham

Index for 1:2500 maps C.1886 of the Dorset Cranborne parish and the county boundary to South Damerham, Hamshire.

PDF copy 318KB

Extract maps (400m x 400m) from OS County Series 1st Edition 1:2500 mapping circa 1886 with digitised feature and boundary overlay. Sheet reference based on full easting-northing 100m grid reference to the lower left internal corner. Listed clockwise from the south west, Folke, Wootton Glanville
Sheet	Description	Boundary	Dorset Parish	Hampshire	link	KB size	date
INDEX	Cranborne 02		Cranborne (1886)	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	1383	1886
4099-1135	Cheater's Gate, Huckle Copse	CS	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	226	1886
4096-1132	Hawkhill Ditch	CS	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	233	1886
4092-1130	Lopshill Common, Hither Daggons Wood	CS	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	279	1886
4088-1130	Crendell Common, Hawkhill Ditch	CS, (Gold Oak) 3ft RH	Cranborne	South Damerhaml	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	315	1886
4086-1133	Lopshill Common	3ft RH	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	272	1886
4084-1137		3ft RH	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	229	1886
4081-1140		3ft RH	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	207	1886
4078-1142	Biddlesgate Farm	3ft RH	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	323	1886
4075-1145	Bittlegate Copse	3ft RH, 3ft BB	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	259	1886
-	All of the above less index	-	Cranborne	South Damerham	PDF Yes, I agree with the licence agreement. Right Click and 'Save Target As ...'	4,867	1886
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Cheater's Gate

J. Childs 2015

Cheater's Gate

Here the boundary aligns with the centre of the stream, Hawkhill Ditch.

The group standing on the road are over the culvert carrying Hawkhill Ditch.

(ST) 410017 113676

Churchill Arms

Churchill Arms

Meet and 'wash up' afterwards at the The Churchill Arms, Daggons Road, Alderholt, Nr Fordingbridge, Hampshire. SP6 3AA. (ST)_411277_112519

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