Golf Links Road, Ferndown but once an ancient trackway
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Golf Links Road, Ferndown but once an ancient trackway
Image: © Martin Rowley Taken: 24 Jul 2012
This view down Golf Links Road from its junction with the A347 (Ringwood Road, near Trickett's Cross) shows at first sight a fairly ordinary suburban highway disappearing into the distance; however its almost perfectly straight alignment betrays the fact that it was once an ancient trackway - traceable on 19th century maps - that led to Dudsbury Fort (or Dudsbury Camp), an early Iron Age fortification on the bank of the River Stour. In later centuries, it would almost certainly have been used by smugglers moving from the south coast inland to cross the heathland on their way to Cranborne and Salisbury.
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Image Location
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50.807503
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-1.880592