List of lost settlements in the UK

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.)

England, by historical county

Bedfordshire

*Stratton, near Biggleswade

Berkshire [ [http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/dmv.html Berkshire History] ]

*Barcote, near Littleworth gbmapping|SU320979 (Manor House still extant)
*Beckett, near Shrivenham gbmapping|SU246892 (Manor House still extant)
*Betterton, near Lockinge gbmapping|SU431868 (Manor House still extant)
*Bockhampton, near Lambourn gbmapping|SU335782 ("Very shrunk")
*Calcote, near Hungerford (near gbmapping|SU340698 (Exact Location Unknown)
*Carswell, near Littleworth gbmapping|SU325978
*Clapcot, near Brightwell gbmapping|SU605916 (Manor House still extant)
*Cruchfield, near Bray gbmapping|SU880740 (Manor House still extant)
*East Compton, near Compton gbmapping|SU525796 (Church still extant)
*Draycott, Longworth gbmapping|SU400994
*Eaton Hastings gbmapping|SU260982 (Church still extant)
*Endloss Ditton, near Luton
*Fulscot, near South Moreton gbmapping|SU545888
*Henwick, near Thatcham gbmapping|SU498686 (Manor House still extant)
*Hillend, near Wytham gbmapping|SU466065
*Hodcot, near West Ilsley gbmapping|SU477818
*Holt, near Kintbury gbmapping|SU401645 (Manor House still extant)
*Langley, near Hampstead Norreys gbmapping|SU498766 (Manor House still extant)
*Inglewood, near Kintbury gbmapping|SU365666 (Manor House still extant)
*Maidencourt, near East Garston gbmapping|SU373760
*Marlston, near Bucklebury gbmapping|SU529719 (Manor House still extant)
*Newton, near Buckland gbmapping|SU360980 (Manor House still extant)
*Odstone, near Ashbury gbmapping|SU271862
*Purley Parva, near Purley gbmapping|SU654769 (Manor House still extant)
*Seacourt, near Wytham gbmapping|SP486075 (Good earthworks: road pattern discernible)
*Shalford, near Brimpton gbmapping|SU569648 (Manor House still extant)
*Sheffield, near Burghfield gbmapping|SU653693
*East Shefford, East Shefford gbmapping|SU391747 (Manor House and church extant)
*Shottesbrooke gbmapping|SU842771 (Manor House and church extant)
*Southcote, near Denchworth gbmapping|SU375910 (Manor House still extant)
*Stroud, near Cumnor gbmapping|SU444075
*Thrupp, near Radley gbmapping|SU518973
*Tubney, near Appleton gbmapping|SP446010 (Manor House still extant)
*Whatcombe, near Fawley gbmapping|SU393789
*Whitley, near Cumnor gbmapping|SP442053 (Exact location unknown)
*Woolley, near Chaddleworth gbmapping|SU410800 (Manor House still extant)
*Wyld Court, near Hampstead Norreys gbmapping|SU543760

Cambridgeshire

*Sawtry, near Sawtry

Devon

*Hundatora, near Hound Tor (DMV. Now in the care of English Heritage [ [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConProperty.265 English Heritage - Hound Tor DMV] ] )
*Hutholes, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Dartmoor.

Dorset

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

Gloucestershire

*Charlton (demolished in the late 1940s to make way for an extension of Filton Airfield)

Hertfordshire [K. Rutherford Davis, "The Deserted Medieval Villages Of Hertfordshire", 2nd Ed 1982 ISBN 0901354236]

Kent

see also the lost villages of the Romney Marsh for more detail

*Buttdarts (over one of the larger marsh drains) gbmapping|TR071296
*Dengemarsh, south of Lydd
*Dode (Dowde) gbmapping|TQ669638, in Luddesdowne parish near Gravesend
*Eastbridge gbmapping|TR078319
*Fairfield gbmapping|TQ977270
*Falconhurst gbmapping|TR076344
*Galloways, not marked on OS

*Hope All Saints gbmapping|TR049258
*Midley, SW of Old Romney gbmapping|TR016237
*Orgarswick, NW of Dymchurch gbmapping|TR090309
*Paddlesworth, near Snodland gbmapping|TQ624681
*Shorne gbmapping|TR049258
*Snave gbmapping|TR015299
*Stone Chapel near Ospringe

Leicestershire

*Knaptoft

Lincolnshire

*Gainsthorpe, near Kirton Lindsey gbmapping|SK955012 (One of the best-preserved DMV sites in Britain, now in the care of English Heritage [ [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConProperty.366 English Heritage - Gainsthorpe Medieval Village] ] [ [http://www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk/gainsthorpe.htm Lost Village Sites of Lincolnshire] ] )
*Waterton gbmapping|SE857181

=Norfolk=

Northamptonshire ["An Inventory of Archaeological Sites in North West Northamptonshire", ISBN 0 11 700900 8] ["Inventory of Archaeological Sites in Central Northamptonshire" ISBN 0 11 700842 7]

Nottinghamshire [ [http://www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk/dmv.htm Lost Village Sites of Nottinghamshire] ]

Rutland

*Alstoe, east of Oakham
*Martinsthorpe, south of Oakham gbmapping|SK866044

uffolk

*Chilton (east of Sudbury)

ussex [Maurice Beresford, "The Lost Villages of England", rev. edn Alan Sutton, 1999]

*Balsdean (in historic Rottingdean)
*Exceat
*Heene (in Worthing)

Wiltshire

*Imber
*Snap, near Aldbourne

Yorkshire

*Easington (in the Forest of Bowland)
*Henderskelf, near Castle Howard [ [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2003_howard.html Time Team - Castle Howard] ] )
*High Worsall, near Middlesbrough
*Skipsea DMV, near Skipsea (Humberside)
*Wharram Percy DMV, near Malton gbmapping|SE859645 [ [http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/begin.htm Wharram Percy - The Lost Medieval Village] ] (One of the best-preserved DMV sites in Britain, now in the care of English Heritage [ [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.3987 English Heritage - Wharram Percy Village] ] [ [http://www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk/wharram.htm Lost Village Sites of Yorkshire] ] )

Northern Ireland, by historical county

cotland, by historical county

Roxburghshire

*Roxburgh [ [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2004_rox.html Time Team - Roxburgh] ]
*Rutherford (Farm now on site, 4 miles east of St Boswells)
*Old Jedward (House near site, 4 miles south of Jedburgh)

Wales, by historical county

External links

* [http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk Deserted medieval villages and other abandoned communities in Britain]
* [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/snapshot_villages.html Channel 4 TV's Time Team website]

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