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Lovat Scouts' First World War training trenches at Docking is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the remains of a training system constructed during the First World War. The trenches were dug to provide realistic conditions for the Lovat Scouts, a Scottish territorial unit, to prepare for active service on the Western Front. The site preserves evidence of the constructed landscape of military preparation during the war, with surviving sections of trench lines and associated earthworks still visible in the Norfolk landscape. These remains represent an important record of how forces were conditioned and equipped for trench warfare between 1914 and 1918.
Lovat Scouts' First World War training trenches, Docking is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1474255. View the official record →
Lovat Scouts' First World War training trenches at Docking is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the remains of a training system constructed during the First World War.
Lovat Scouts' First World War training trenches, Docking is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1474255.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Bunker's Hill, 1070m north east of Crow Hall (7 km), Bowl barrow 900m north east of Crow Hall: one of a group of round barrows on Harpley Common (7.1 km), Bowl barrow 1150m ENE of Crow Hall: one of a group of round barrows on Harpley Common (7.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Lovat Scouts' First World War training trenches, Docking's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Lovat Scouts' First World War training trenches, Docking stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.