Lytchett Matravers

Parish Lytchett Matravers

O.S Grid Reference SY 9372 9774 [Lat 50.7788 - Long -2.0907]

Nearest contour height 75m

Topography

Archaeology None known

Earliest Dating

Records

Documents

Maps

Early maps

Ogilby 1675

Taylor 1765

Tithe Map (c1840) CHECK THIS

1st Edition OS map OS 1851 - Windmill Barrow

Present OS map Windmill Barrow shown at Windmill Barrow Farm,

Google Maps

The Windmill

The Millers

Present site condition

Notes and comments : In this village area to the south west of Wimborne, the RCHM^[1] discounts LV Grinsell's suggestion^[2] that the mound named Windmill Barrow was, in fact, originally a prehistoric barrow. The RCHM interprets the area as being a probable windmill mound (backed up by the local naming 1) consisting of an embanked circular depression of some 45 feet diameter surmounting a mound on the spine of a slight ridge itself about 250 feet in diameter. Mound some 11 feet high

^[1] RCHM II Part 3 p483

^[2] LV Grinsell, Dorset Barrows DNH&AS 1959 pp59 & 119 (Windmill Barrow NGR SY94/899821 crowned with firs Ht 7ft frS 12ft fr N - Appropiation of barrows to later uses is shown in a variety of names, use as windmill stead in Windmill Barrow