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<< Text Pages >> Furzey Down Road - Ancient Trackway in England in Dorset

Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 04 January 2010  Page Views: 3779

Multi-periodSite Name: Furzey Down Road
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Ancient Trackway
 Nearest Village: Godmanstone
Map Ref: SY654974
Latitude: 50.775141N  Longitude: 2.492076W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4
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Ancient Trackway in Dorset

From Pastscape: "A pre-Roman trackway leaves the Great Ridgeway on Batcombe Hill and extends south-south-east over Gore Hill and Ridge Hill to Crete Hill. From this point, Timperley and Brill suggested that the trackway proceeded through the settlement on Grimstone Down (SY 69 NW 38) before descending to the River Frome at Muckleford. They also supposed that the trackway originally extended further south-west from Muckleford towards Black Down, where it joined the Coastal Ridgeway. Good, however, believed that the trackway continued south-eastwards from Crete Hill towards the river at Wrackleford (SY 668928) and headed towards Maiden Castle. The route favoured by Timperley and Brill (via Muckleford to Black Down) was described by Good as part of a Medieval road from Abbotsbury to Cerne Abbas (see SY 69 SW 63) with no mention of having had pre-Roman origin. Taylor's map of 1756 marks the trackway (as a complete road) for four miles over Gore Hill and annotates it as 'Furzey Down Road'."
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SY6597 : Crete Bottom by Becky Williamson
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SY6597 : Threshing at Manor Farm, Godmanstone by Ian Allman
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SY6597 : Unusual stone sculpture in Godmanstone Plantation by Becky Williamson
by Becky Williamson
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SY6597 : Egg-shaped stone sculpture in Godmanstone Plantation by Becky Williamson
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SY6597 : Crete Bottom by Andrew Smith
by Andrew Smith
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