Winterborne Whitechurch

Parish Winterborne Whitechurch

O.S Grid Reference SY 836 992 [Lat 50.7920 - Long -2.2341]

Nearest contour height 90m

Topography Good - on rising open ground

Archaeology

Extract from an aerial photograph (poor quality photocopy (RCHM Swindon ref NMR 4527/19 - 1989) showing possible cropmark in location of Tithe record below.

Earliest Dating 1841 (Tithe map)

Records

Documents

Maps

Early maps

Ogilby 1675

Taylor 1765

Tithe Map (c1840) (below)

Plot 188 = Windmill Field (arable)

Owner - Henry Compton; occupier - Henry Fooks

1st Edition OS map

Present OS map

Google Maps :

The Windmill

The Millers

Present site condition

Notes and comments

Another Windmill Field place-name in the Winterborne Whitechurch Tithe Award whose map locates the field (ref 188) south of the village to the east of the Blandford road.^[1] This area presents a good open site for a windmill.

This appears to correspond to further records in the Michel of Dewlish archive (DCRO Cat ref D/Mic Deeds D/MIC/T2 1827-1836) where there is also a record of a Windmill Field in the manor of Dewlish. This also appears in a early records (ref as above but T5 (1604-1845).

^[1] Mills AD, Place Names of Dorset Vol II. 1980