List of lost settlements in the UK

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This list includes some of the thousands of deserted medieval villages (DMVs), "shrunken" villages and other settlements known to have been "lost" or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England alone. (Grid References are given, where known.)

Contents 1 England, by historical county 1.1 Bedfordshire 1.2 Berkshire 1.3 Cambridgeshire 1.4 Devon 1.5 Dorset 1.6 Gloucestershire 1.7 Hertfordshire[1] 1.8 Kent 1.9 Leicestershire 1.10 Lincolnshire 1.11 Norfolk 1.12 Northamptonshire[2][3]. 1.13 Nottinghamshire 1.14 Rutland 1.15 Suffolk 1.16 Sussex 1.17 Wiltshire 1.18 Yorkshire 2 Northern Ireland, by historical county 3 Scotland, by historical county 3.1 Roxburghshire 4 Wales, by historical county 5 External links 6 References

[edit] England, by historical county

[edit] Bedfordshire

• Stratton, near Biggleswade [1]

[edit] Berkshire

(Information derived from [2].

• Barcote, near Littleworth (SU 320979) (Manor House still extant)
• Beckett, near Shrivenham (SU 246892) (Manor House still extant)
• Betterton, near Lockinge (SU 431868) (Manor House still extant)
• Bockhampton, near Lambourn (SU 335782) "Very shrunken"
• Calcote, near Hungerford (near SU 340698 - Exact Location Unknown)
• Carswell, near Littleworth (SU 325978)
• Clapcot, near Brightwell (SU 605916) (Manor House still extant)
• Cruchfield, near Bray (SU 880740) (Manor House still extant)
• East Compton, near Compton (SU 525796) (Church still extant)
• Draycott, Longworth (SU400994)
• Eaton Hastings, Eaton Hastings (SU 260982) (Church still extant)
• Endloss Ditton, near Luton
• Fulscot, near South Moreton (SU 545888
• Henwick, near Thatcham (SU 498686) (Manor House still extant)
• Hillend, near Wytham (SU 466065)
• Hodcot, near West Ilsley (SU 477818)
• Holt, near Kintbury (SU 401645) (Manor House still extant)
• Langley, near Hampstead Norreys (SU 498766) (Manor House still extant)
• Inglewood, near Kintbury (SU 365666) (Manor House still extant)
• Maidencourt, near East Garston (SU 373760)
• Marlston, near Bucklebury (SU 529719) (Manor House still extant)
• Newton, near Buckland (SU 360980) (Manor House still extant)
• Odstone, near Ashbury (SU 271862
• Purley Parva, near Purley (SU 654769) (Manor House still extant)
• Seacourt,near Wytham (SP 486075) (Good earthworks: road pattern discernible)
• Shalford, near Brimpton (SU 569648) (Manor House still extant)
• Sheffield, near Burghfield (SU 653693)
• East Shefford, East Shefford (SU 391747) (Manor House and church extant)
• Shottesbrooke, Shottesbrooke (SU 842771) (Manor House and church extant)
• Southcote, near Denchworth (SU 375910) (Manor House still extant)
• Stroud, near Cumnor (SU 444075)
• Thrupp, near Radley (SU 518973)
• Tubney, near Appleton (SP 446010) (Manor House still extant)
• Whatcombe, near Fawley (SU 393789)
• Whitley, near Cumnor (SP 442053 - Exact location unknown)
• Woolley, near Chaddleworth (SU 410800) (Manor House still extant)
• Wyld Court, near Hampstead Norreys (SU 543760)

[edit] Cambridgeshire

• Sawtry, near Sawtry

e.g stilton

[edit] Devon

• Hundatora, near Hound Tor - DMV. Originally a Bronze Age settlement, now in the care of English Heritage [3]

[edit] Dorset

• Tyneham (taken over by the British Armed Forces during World War II)

[edit] Gloucestershire

• Charlton, demolished in the late 1940s to make way for an extension of Filton Airfield

[edit] Hertfordshire^[1]

• Aldwick grid reference SP892175
• Alfledawich (Beauchamps) grid reference TL382314
• Alswick grid reference TL376295
• Aspenden II grid reference TL347288
• Ayot St Lawrence grid reference TL194169
• Ayot St Peter grid reference TL218150
• Berkeden (Berkesdon Green) grid reference TL335276
• Betlow grid reference SP897172
• Bordesden (Bozen Green) grid reference TL412272
• Boxbury grid reference TL274266
• Bricewold
• Brickendon grid reference TL330105
• Broadfield grid reference TL325310
• Broadmead grid reference SP892175
• Burston grid reference TL135037
• Caldecote grid reference TL237385
• Chaldean grid reference TL423205
• Chesfield grid reference TL247278
• Childwick grid reference TL141107
• Cockenach grid reference TL396302
• Cockhamsted grid reference TL419253
• Corney Bury grid reference TL358307
• Digswell grid reference TL236149
• Flaunden grid reference TL009988
• Flexmere grid reference TL168224
• Gilston grid reference TL440135
• Great Munden grid reference TL355243
• Gubblecote grid reference SP905152
• Hainstone
• Hanstead grid reference TL143017
• Hixham grid reference TL454268
• Hodenhoe grid reference TL346334
• Ichetone (Layston) grid reference TL370300
• Kitts End grid reference TL245984
• Lewarewich (Leverage) near grid reference TL435165
• Libury (Stutereshele) grid reference TL345235
• Mardley grid reference TL259185
• Maydencroft (Furnival Dinsley) grid reference TL182274
• Minsden grid reference TL198246
• Miswell grid reference SP912120
• Moor Green grid reference TL321266
• Napsbury grid reference TL165043
• Nettleden II grid reference TL015104
• Newsells grid reference TL386372
• North Mymms grid reference TL222045
• Oxwich near Codicote
• Pendley grid reference SP944117
• Plashes grid reference TL382203
• Queenhoo grid reference TL278162
• Quickswood grid reference TL278328
• Sapeham
• Stagenhoe grid reference TL186227
• Stanstead Abbotts grid reference TL399110
• Stevenage grid reference TL240262
• Stivicesworde
• Stocks grid reference SP962133
• Stonebury grid reference TL384282
• Temple Dinsley grid reference TL182248
• Thorley grid reference TL476188
• Throcking grid reference TL337303
• Thundridge grid reference TL368175
• Tiscott grid reference SP883178
• Titburst (Theobald Street) grid reference TL180995
• Wakeley grid reference TL342269
• Wandon grid reference TL132225
• Wellbury grid reference TL142298
• Welei (Wain Wood)
• Wickham grid reference TL475230
• Windridge grid reference TL125057
• Wollenwick (Woolwicks) grid reference TL222253

[edit] Kent

• Dode (Dowde)(TQ 669638), in Luddesdowne parish near Gravesend
• Paddlesworth, near Snodland, (TQ 624681)
• see also the lost villages of the Romney Marsh
• Stone Chapel near Ospringe

[edit] Leicestershire

• Knaptoft

[edit] Lincolnshire

• Gainsthorpe, near Kirton Lindsey (SK 955012) One of the best-preserved DMV sites in Britain, now in the care of English Heritage [4][5]
• Waterton (SE 857 181)

[edit] Norfolk

• Alethorpe, (grid ref:TF 948 313)
• Appleton, (grid ref: TF 705 274)
• Ashby, (grid ref: TG 419 158)
• Babingley, (grid ref: TF 670 263)
• Barmer, (grid ref: TF 810 3350
• Barningham, North (grid ref: TG 151 372)
• Barningham, Town (grid ref: TG 147 357)
• Barwick, Great (grid ref: TF 805 352)
• Bawsey, (grid ref: TF 663 207)
• Bayfield, (grid ref: TG 050 405)
• Beachamwell, (grid ref: TF 752 054)
• Beeston St Andrew(grid ref: TG 251 146)
• Bickerston, (grid ref: TG 086 087)
• Bittering, Little (grid ref: TF 935 175)
• Bixley, (grid ref: TG 257 040)
• Bodney, (grid ref: TL 831 989)
• Bowthorpe, (grid ref: TG 177 091)
• Breydeston, (grid ref: TG 341 088)
• Broomsthorpe, (grid ref: TF 849 284)
• Brumstead, (grid ref: TG 370 265)
• Buckenham Tofts (grid ref: TL 838 947)
• Burgh, (grid ref: TG 044 335)
• Bylaugh, (grid ref: TG 036 184)
• Caldecote, (grid ref: TF 745 034)
• Choseley, (grid ref: TF 755 408)
• Colveston, (grid ref: TL 794 955)
• Cranwich, (grid ref: TL 783 949)
• Didlington, (grid ref: TL 779 970)
• Earlham, (grid ref: TG 193 082)
• Eccles, (grid ref: TG 414 288)
• Egmere, (grid ref: TF 897 374)
• Foston or Fodderston, (grid ref: TF 655 089)
• Frenze, (grid ref: TM 135 804)
• Gasthorpe, (grid ref: TL 983 813)
• Godwick, (grid ref: TF 903 220) near Fakenham [6]
• Greynston or Grenstein, (grid ref: TF 907 198)
• Gunton, (grid ref: TG 230 340)
• Hales, (grid ref: TM 380 960)
• Hargham, (grid ref: TM 020 914)
• Harling, Middle (grid ref: TL 980 851)
• Harling, West (grid ref: TL 975 852)
• Hautbois, Little (grid ref: TG 262 204)
• Heckingham, (grid ref: TM 385 988)
• Herringby, (grid ref: TG 446 103)
• Hockham, Little (grid ref: TL 949 910)
• Holkham, (grid ref: TF 882 430)
• Holverston, (grid ref: TG 307 031)
• Houghton, (grid ref: TF 794 285)
• Houghton-on-the-Hill, (grid ref: TF 868 053)
• Illington, (grid ref: TL 946 901)
• Ingloss, (grid ref: TM 345 967)
• Irmingland, (grid ref: TG 123 294)
• Kempstone, (grid ref: TF 886 160)
• Kenningham, (grid ref: TM 206 999)
• Kilverstone, (grid ref: TL 894 841)
• Langford, (grid ref: TL 839 965)
• Letton, (grid ref: TF 974 057)
• Leziate, (grid ref: TF 695 199)
• Longham, (grid ref: TF 935 155)
• Lynford, (grid ref: TL 820 941)
• Mannington, (grid ref: TG 144 320)
• Markshall, (grid ref: TG 228 047)
• Mintlyn, (grid ref: TF 657 192)
• Narford, (grid ref: TF 764 138)
• Oby, (grid ref: TG 415 144)
• Oxborough, (grid ref: TF 738 005)
• Oxnead, (grid ref: TG 229 240)
• Palgrave, Great (grid ref: TF 834 120)
• Palgrave, Little (grid ref: TF 832 135)
• Pattesley, (grid ref: TF 899 241)
• Pensthorpe, (grid ref: TF 947 290)
• Pudding Norton, (grid ref: TF 924 277)
• Quarles, (grid ref: TF 884 385)
• Rackheath, Little (grid ref: About TG 277 132?)
• Riddlesworth, (grid ref: TL 966 814)
• Ringstead, Little (grid ref: TF 684 399) also referd to as Barrett.
• Roudham, (grid ref: TL 956 872)
• Rougham, (grid ref: TF 825 207)
• Roxham, (grid ref: TL 638 997)
• Ryston, (grid ref: TF 625 012)
• Santon, (grid ref: TL 828 873)
• Saxlingham Thorpe, (grid ref: TM 230 966)
• Shingham, (grid ref: TF 762 052)
• Shotesham St Mary, (grid ref: TM 238 988)
• Snarehill, Great (grid ref: TL 893 835)
• Stanford, (grid ref: TL 855 946)
• Stanninghall, (grid ref: TG 255 175)
• Sturston, (grid ref: TL 875 950
• Summerfield or Southmere, (grid ref: TF 748 385)
• Sutton, (grid ref: TF 895 206)
• Tattersett, (grid ref: TF 850 293)
• Testerton, (grid ref:TF 934 267)
• Thorpe Parva, (grid ref: TM 161 794)
• Thorpland, (grid ref: TF 616 083)
• Thorpland, (grid ref: TF 937 322)
• Threxton, (grid ref: TF 885 001)
• Thuxton, (grid ref: TG 035 075)
• Tofts, West (grid ref:TL 837 928)
• Tottington, (grid ref: TL 893 955)
• Wallington, (grid ref: TF 626 076)
• Waterden, (grid ref: TF 887 364)
• Weasenham St Peter, (grid ref: TF 856 224)
• Windall or Windle, (grid ref: about TM 427 939?)
• Winston, (grid ref: TM 401 931)
• Witchingham, Little (grid ref: TG 117 204)
• Wolterton, (grid ref: TG 164 324)
• Wreningham, Little (grid ref: about TM 155 980?)
• Wretham, West (grid ref: TL 900 914)

[edit] Northamptonshire^[2][3].

• Achurch
• Althorp SP678648
• Appletree
• Armston
• Astwell
• Astwick
• Badsaddle SP833730
• Barford SP853828
• Boughton SP901816
• Braunston Cleves or Fawcliff SP544682
• Braunstonbury SP53365
• Brime
• Brockhall
• Burghley
• Calme
• Caswell
• Canons Ashby SP 576507
• Cotes
• Coton SP673717
• Cotton near Grendon SP874610
• Cotton Mill
• Cotton Mallows
• Chilcote SP658747
• Churchfield
• Church Charwelton SP544554
• Doddington Thorpe SP871656
• Downtown SP615801
• Eaglethorpe
• Eastern Neston
• Edgcote
• Elmington in Ashton
• Elmington in Tansor
• Elkington SP626762
• Falcutt
• Fawsley SP561566
• Foscote
• Faxton SP78475
• Field Burcote
• Foxley
• Furtho
• Glassthorpe SP662617
• Glendon SP847814
• Great Purston
• Hale
• Holdenby SP692675
• Horton SP821542
• Hothorpe SP667852
• Kelmarsh SP743794
• Kingsthorpe
• Kirby SP925925
• Kirby in Blakesley
• Kirby in Gretton
• Knuston SP938662
• Lilford
• Little Creaton SP712716
• Little Newton SP887833
• Little Oxendon SP733845
• Lolham
• Lower Catesby SP515597
• Mawsley SP805763
• Milton
• Murcott SP620677
• Muscott SP627633
• Nether Catesby
• Newbottle SP777815
• Newbottle in Harrington
• Nobold SP695821
• Nobottle
• Nunton
• Papley
• Perio
• Pipewell SP839857
• Potcote
• Preston Deanery SP787555
• Onley Northamptonshire SP511707
• Overstone SP806657
• Rushton Saint Peter SP837827
• Seawell
• Sibberton
• Silsworth SP617707
• Snorscomb SP598561
• Stanford SP589788
• Steane
• Strixton SP902617
• Stuchbury
• Sulby SP653816
• Thorpe SP865630
• Thorpe Lubenham
• Thrupp Northamptonshire SP598650
• Torpel
• Trafford
• Upper Catesby SP528594
• Upton
• Walcot
• Walton
• Winwick, Northamptonshire SP627737
• Wolfhampcote SP533656
• Woodcroft
• Wothorpe
• Wythmail SP842721

[edit] Nottinghamshire

List of sites [7]

[edit] Rutland

• Alstoe, east of Oakham
• Martinsthorpe, south of Oakham (SK866044)

[edit] Suffolk

• Chilton, east of Sudbury

[edit] Sussex

• Balsdean, in historic Rottingdean
• Exceat
• Heene, in Worthing

(Maurice Beresford, The lost villages of England, rev. edn (Alan Sutton, 1999)

[edit] Wiltshire

• Imber

[edit] Yorkshire

• Easington in the Forest of Bowland [8]
• Henderskelf, near Castle Howard [9]
• High Worsall, near Middlesbrough
• Skipsea DMV, near Skipsea (Humberside)
• Wharram Percy DMV, near Malton (SE 859645) [10] One of the best-preserved DMV sites in Britain, now in the care of English Heritage [11][12]

[edit] Northern Ireland, by historical county

[edit] Scotland, by historical county

[edit] Roxburghshire

• Roxburgh [13]
• Rutherford (Farm now on site, 4 miles east of St Boswells)
• Old Jedward (House near site, 4 miles south of Jedburgh)

[edit] Wales, by historical county

[edit] External links

• Deserted medieval villages and other abandoned communities in Britain
• Channel 4 TV's Time Team website

[edit] References

1. ^ The Deserted Medieval Villages Of Hertfordshire 2nd Ed 1982- K. Rutherford Davis ISBN 0901354236
2. ^ An Inventory of Archaeological Sites in North West Northamptonshire, ISBN 0 11 700900 8
3. ^ Inventory of Archaeological Sites in Central Northamptonshire ISBN 0 11 700842 7