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| HER Number: | MDV125145 |
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| Name: | Carriageway to Poltimore House |
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Summary
Carriageway built in 1870 from the southeastern corner of the park to the house.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 970 959 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX99NE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Broad Clyst |
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| Civil Parish | Poltimore |
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| District | East Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | POLTIMORE |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- DRIVE (Built, XIX - 1870 AD to 1870 AD)
Full description
Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.
Driveway shown across the park.
Creighton, O. + Cunningham, P. + French, H., 2013, Peopling Polite Landscapes. Community and Heritage at Poltimore, Devon, 81, Fig. 6 (Article in Serial). SDV361004.
A new carriageway was built from the southeast corner of the park in 1870. Its curving course was designed to showcase the house and park. A new lodge was also built at the entrance.
Edwards, M., 2019, Pinhoe Phase 3, Devon: Geophysical Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363558.
Substrata undertook geophysical survey in advance of a planning application for an area at Poltimore, Pinhoe. Seventy nine anomaly groups were detected by the survey of which seventy seven may represent buried archaeology. This includes possible ring-ditches, trackways, field boundaries, the positions of former farm buildings as well as agricultural features.
Anomaly 2 is a modern farm track that used to be the initial section of the main approach to Poltimore House as depicted on OS 1880s-90s First Edition mapping.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV336179 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital). [Mapped feature: #116338 ] |
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| SDV361004 | Article in Serial: Creighton, O. + Cunningham, P. + French, H.. 2013. Peopling Polite Landscapes. Community and Heritage at Poltimore, Devon. Landscape History. 33. Digital. 81, Fig. 6. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV19787 | Part of: Poltimore Deer park (Monument) |
| MDV49388 | Related to: BRIDGE in the Parish of Upottery (Monument) |
| MDV10156 | Related to: Poltimore House (Building) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV8246 - Geophysical Survey: Pinhoe Phase 3 (Ref: 1902PIN-R-1)
| Date Last Edited: | Mar 13 2020 7:57AM |
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