Field Scarp, Higher Thorn Park, West Challacombe Farm, Combe Martin, West Exmoor Coast

Record ID:  100927 / MNA148459
Record type:  Boundary
Protected Status: None Recorded
NT Property:  West Exmoor Coast; South West
Civil Parish:  Combe Martin; North Devon; Devon
Grid Reference:  SS 58630 47860
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Summary

The boundary between Upper and Middle Thorn Parks. Part of a block of post-medieval fields N of the farm. The scarp is badly eroded with ongoing loss of loss of the earthwork and hedgerow plants.

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  • SCARP (Undated)

Description

The boundary between Upper and Middle Thorn Parks. Part of a block of post-medieval fields N of the farm. The scarp is badly eroded with ongoing loss of loss of the earthwork and hedgerow plants.

Recommendations: As an important historic landscape feature the field boundary needs urgent action. As a priority the fields need to be made stock-proof, and a program of stabilisation and restoration initiated.

References:
1843 Combe Martin Tithe Map
Aldred, O.R. (2001) Somerset and Exmoor National Park Landscape Characterisation Project. Somerset County Council

References

  • SNA62241 - Document: Nick Berry. 2002. Archaeological and Historic Landscape Survey of West Challacombe Farm, Combe Martin, Devon.

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