Red Post, Winterborne Anderson:: OS grid SY8897 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

SY8897 : Red Post, Winterborne Anderson

near to Anderson, Dorset, Great Britain

Red Post, Winterborne Anderson

The post was used as a marker for illiterate guards who were escorting prisoners from Dorchester Prison to Portsmouth, from where they then went for a long cruise to Botany Bay, Australia.
Approximately 0.5km back down the minor road from where this photograph was taken is Botany Bay Farm. Here can still be found the remains of part of a substantially built barn, which doubled as a cell where the prisoners were held on their first overnight stop.

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2006

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Grid Square: SY8897, 43 images (more nearby)
Photographer: John Lamper (find more nearby)
Image classification^?: Geograph (First for SY8897)
First in 5 Years (TPoint) ^?
Date Taken: Tuesday, 2 May, 2006 (more nearby)
Submitted: Wednesday, 3 May, 2006
Category: Road signs (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: SY 88355 97050 [1m precision]
WGS84: 50:46.3748N 2:9.9907W
View Direction: NORTH (about 0 degrees)