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	Village Life
		Medieval villages consisted of a population comprised of mostly of farmers.
		Medieval Europeans may have been unclear of their country's boundaries, but they knew every stone, tree, road and stream of their village.
		Medieval peasants were either classified as free men or as "villeins," those who owed heavy labor service to a lord, were bound to the land, and subject to feudal dues.
	www.medieval-life.net /village_life.htm (258 words)

	MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT RESEARCH GROUP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Medieval rural settlements include all habitations from the 5th to the 16th century, from the temporary shielings occupied by those herding animals, to the residences of great lords.
		We must be aware that the landscape of the medieval period had usually been settled and cultivated for millennia, and that prehistoric and Roman patterns of land holding and exploitation influenced their medieval successors.
		Medieval settlements are not 'monuments' confined within a fenced enclosure of a few acres, but were the focal points of large living landscapes, and we must grasp methods by which at least representative examples of whole townships and parishes can be saved for posterity.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /msrg/policy.html (3391 words)

	Deserted medieval village - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deserted medieval village (DMV) sites are former settlements which have been abandoned for one reason or another over the years, usually leaving little but the remains of earthworks or ghostly cropmarks.
		Over the centuries settlements have been deserted for natural reasons including rivers changing course or silting up, flooding (especially during the wet 13th and 14th centuries) as well as coastal and estuarine erosion.
		Perhaps the best-known deserted medieval village in England is at Wharram Percy in Yorkshire, because of the extensive archaeological excavations conducted there between its discovery in 1948 and 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deserted_medieval_village (490 words)

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		Of medieval villages in general one suggestion for the cause of desertion within some northern villages is that of the 'harrying of the North' by William 1st.
		In the early medieval period the lower areas of our upland zone were exploited for the grazing of cattle and a cluster of farm buildings would serve a common cause.
		Returning to the reason for the depopulation of medieval villages, the continued population expansion of the 12th and 13th centuries ground to a halt in the 14 th century.
	www.barrowford.org /page72.html (1549 words)

	Secret Shropshire
		The later medieval period saw a decline in settlement and the appearance of the Deserted Medieval Village.
		This is all that remains of the small medieval village of Abdon.
		Surrounding the village are the remnants of ridge and furrow.
	www.secretshropshire.org.uk /Content/Learn/Landscape/Settlement.asp (498 words)

	Sites in South Cambridgeshire
		The earthworks to the north-east of the Castle are the remains of a Deserted Medieval Village, which was abandoned when the settlement shifted to Camps Green during the later Middle Ages.
		The Medieval village of Clopton is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and is known from documentary sources to have had a market in the 13th century.
		The village seems to have gone into decline during the later middle ages, and was finally deserted during the early 16th century when the land was purchased by John Fisher.
	www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk /leisure/archaeology/outreach/sites/site_southcambs.htm (3375 words)

	ENG-VILLAGES Deserted Villages page
		In 1585, in the middle of the deserted village, Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice and Attorney General to Elizabeth I, built a fine brick manor house, having purchased the estate in 1580.
		The physical remains that survive in England of deserted medieval villages and abandoned `ridge and furrow' strip fields were simply unrecognised for what they were.
		From the mid-14th century, when the village population had begun to shrink after the Black Death, some properties were amalgamated, and a new type of courtyard farm was built alongside the older longhouses.
	www.eng-villages.co.uk /vill_des.html (3170 words)

	Guardian \| John Hurst
		His greatest achievement was to realise the potential of deserted medieval villages, in collaboration with Maurice Beresford.
		He excavated medieval peasant houses thoroughly and scientifically for the first time in England at Wharram Percy in Yorkshire, beginning in 1952, and coordinated a nationwide listing of abandoned village sites, culminating in the book Deserted Medieval Villages, co-edited with Beresford, in 1971.
		He formed, with Beresford, the deserted medieval village research group, which coordinated the work of dozens of enthusiasts throughout the country.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4667267-103684,00.html (777 words)

	Three Youths in a Medieval Village
		The youths, all aged 15, could not help but notice that instead of there being groups of people chatting in the street or on their way to church (although the church was no longer visible), the village was completely deserted.
		This was the only shop visible in the village, and it was so dirty, festooned with cobwebs, that it suggested the butcher had shut up shop and gone away weeks before.
		The silence was now broken by the sound of church bells, smoke hung in the air that in the village had been crystal clear, and behind the trees at the southern end of the village the church was visible...
	members.aol.com /timeslip8888/medievalvillage.html (501 words)

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		These are the deserted medieval village of Argham, which comprises of some 12 hectares of well-preserved earthworks to the south of the farm complex, and part of the Argham Dike system, a substantial prehistoric linear boundary, which crosses the Western side of of the estate.
		The power of a feudal landowner became almost absolute as the medieval period progressed; villages could be evicted and the village abandoned for a variety of reasons, most frequently when the lord felt that he could obtain a better income from alternative agricultural practices such as sheep farming.
		Many villages on the Wolds became deserted or depopulated either as a result of this process, or from a combination of factors which included emparkment, be declining economic base resulting from worsening climate conditions, or a population decrease following the great plagues of the 14th century.
	www.arghamvillage.co.uk /nursery/history3.html (1409 words)

	Wharram Percy Village : Wharram Percy Village : Yorkshire Region : Local Investigations : Landscape Detectives : ...
		The deserted village, set on the side of a remote and picturesque valley in the Yorkshire Wolds, was first laid out at some point in the 10th century AD and is mentioned briefly in Domesday Book.
		The use of the village's church, St Martin's, continued for a further 400 years, but tailed off sharply when a new church was built in the nearby village of Thixendale in 1870, paid for by Sir Tatton Sykes, a more philanthropic landlord.
		Once again, however, the planned village had to be laid out in a landscape that was far from being a blank canvas.
	www.english-heritage.org.uk /server/show/nav.001002003005002003005 (1409 words)

	Manuscripts as Historical Sources
		Manuscripts provide not only the most authentic witnesses to life in the medieval era, but also a record of what aspects of life were considered to be of sufficient importance to immortalise in the medium.
		The deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire was investigated by archaeologists for over 30 years, revealing many aspects of village life not perpetuated in written records.
		Although literacy was not universal at any stage during the medieval era, the management of society became dependent on literacy and on the literate.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /whyread/sources.htm (900 words)

	The village of Pujerra in the Malaga province, Andalucía, Southern Spain
		The village of Pujerra in the Malaga province, Andalucía, Southern Spain
		This is also the site of the deserted medieval village of Cenay, which was large enough to have its own church and was the seat of a very large rural parish.
		The village sits at the end of a paved road from Igualeja, although a new paved road now winds out of the back of the village to the San Pedro-Ronda highway, a vital factor in its continuing survival.
	www.andalucia.com /province/malaga/pujerra/home.htm (754 words)

	Wharram Percy
		At the northern end of the village lay one of the two manor houses, with another six properties to the east of it.
		The plots on the eastern side of the village lay in the valley, on land that is roughly level or gently sloping towards the south.
		Between these plots and the plots to the west is a moderately steep slope, and the western plots lay on the plateau at the top of the slope.
	www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk /page57.html (448 words)

	Channel 4 – Time Team
		It has long been known that there is a deserted medieval village here but the Team have just three days to unearth the evidence that will explain why the population apparently disappeared into thin air.
		All that remains of the village are 'lumps and bumps' where the houses once stood.
		The White Company, a medieval re-enactment society, visited Time Team during the excavations at High Worsall, to demonstrate how the residents of the now-deserted village may have supplemented their diet with fish from the River Tees, which forms one border of the village.
	www.channel4.com /history/timeteam/archive/prog8.html (432 words)

	Department of Archaeology - University of Nottingham
		The principal site of the deserted medieval settlement of Keighton lies centred on NGR SK542383, on the Main Campus of Nottingham University, bounded by four roads, Portland Hill, East Drive, Keighton Hill and Cut Through Lane.
		The pottery associated with this final medieval activity would point to the thirteenth-fourteenth century rather than later, and it is likely that this part of the site was abandoned towards the end of the fourteenth century, when ploughsoil seems to have been spread down the hill over the remains.
		It is increasingly apparent that Keighton was not a typical deserted medieval village.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /archaeology/research/laing/keighton.html (735 words)

	Buckinghamshire
		If you are interested in other deserted medieval villages in Buckinghamshire I would recommend a BA dissertation by D C Bawden, An Introduction to the Deserted Villages of Buckinghamshire, 1975.
		Its value was 60 shillings, and it included 600 acres of arable land, land to provide hay for five teams of oxen, and enough woodland for 1200 swine.
		In the twelfth century the village was acquired by the Dayrell family.
	www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk /buckinghamshire.html (591 words)

	Background to the Deserted Village Project
		The Post-Medieval Deserted Village at Slievemore currently consists of 74 upstanding buildings and the foundations of another 10, out of an original total of 137 as depicted on early Ordnance Survey maps 1838 - 1840.
		That this momentous event was preceded by the Bruce Invasion of Ireland whose 'slash-and-burn' method of conquest laid waste much of the island of Ireland coupled with a devestating famine, decimated the population of Ireland.
		Architectural features and the layout of the village suggests construction occurred in three phases, one of which post-dates the original 1838 Ordnance Survey maps, a second represented by a cluster of remodelled Medieval houses close the structure comprising chamber and passage, and a linear group to the East which includes House #36.
	www.achill-fieldschool.com /html/site/2005dv_project.htm (1320 words)

	The Society for Medieval Archaeology - Newsletter
		Medieval Settlement Research Group (M.S.R.G) The origins of the present group date back to August 1952 when Maurice Beresford, Gerald Dunning, John Hurst and Bill Singleton (architectural historian), all interested in deserted medieval villages from different standpoints, decided to set up a new inter-disciplinary research group.
		Medieval archaeology was revealing the complexity of rural settlement origins and evolution.
		It became clear that desertion could not be studied in isolation but had to be seen within the context of local and regional settlement patterns.
	www.medievalarchaeology.org /newsletter.htm (7136 words)

	WOLFHAMPCOTE
		These form part of the well known deserted medieval village site, but do not be misled into assuming that all the mounds which can be seen are the result of the destruction of the village some time late in the 14th century.
		The village and church were featured in an early BBC production called "Stranger than Fiction", this was a documentary and dwelt on the erroneous premise that the village had been wiped out by the Black Death.
		Although in medieval times it was usual to cast large bells on, or near, the actual site of a church this was, in accordance with the usual practice of John Sturdy, probably cast in London and brought by cart to Wolfhampcote.
	www.bigfarm.co.uk /wolfhampcote.htm (4721 words)

	Wharram Percy, DMV,
		Wharram Percy is a deserted medieval village (DMV) on the western edge of the chalk wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
		The villagers of Wharram Percy seem to have suffered instead, from the changes in prices and wages in the fifteenth century, which gave pastoral farming (of particularly sheep), an advantage over traditional cereal farming.
		The village was finally abandoned in the early sixteenth century when the lord of the manor turned out the last few families and knocked down their homes to make room for extra sheep pasturage.
	www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk /wharram.htm (709 words)

	module arl325 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The lack of recent interest in the mechanics of medieval agriculture is reflected in the date of publication of most of the works cited.
		Astill, G.G. 'Rural settlement: the toft and the croft', in G. Astill and A. Grant (eds), The Countryside of Medieval England (1988), 36- 61.
		Munby, J. 'Portchester and its region', in B.W. Cunliffe and J. Munby, Excavations at Portchester Castle: 4 Medieval, the Inner Bailey (1985), 270-95.
	www.qub.ac.uk /arcpal/modules/arl325book.htm (3289 words)

	South Somerset District Council, Museums and Heritage Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The site of this village is less than a quarter of a mile north of the similarly deserted village of Coombe.
		Scatter of medieval and post medieval pottery in field to the west, but not enough to confirm an extension suggested by the aerial photographs.
		The deserted Medieval village has well developed boundaries on the east side of the north-south road and less well developed on the west but patches of nettles and slight platforms present, with ramps running down to the north-south road which runs 1 to 2.5m below the ground surface.
	www.southsomersetmuseums.org.uk /heritage/hinton-village-2.htm (302 words)

	East Anglian Archaeology - Medieval
		The settlement earthworks are almost entirely medieval and include deserted villages and the more numerous shrunken settlements as well as manorial sites where more than a single moated platform survives.
		Occ Pap 11, 2003: A medieval moated settlement and windmill, excavations at Boreham Airfield, Essex, 1996, by Rachel Clarke
		During the later medieval period the site appears to have been absorbed into a park, possibly associated with New Hall, and was covered by Dukes Wood until the construction of the airfield in the 1940s.
	www.eaareports.demon.co.uk /medieval.html (4705 words)

	Policy Statement
		In doing so MSRG have had regard to recent policy statements on behalf of the Group (3) as well as to UK and national frameworks (4).We intend that this statement will be made widely available and will be used in counties and regions to develop a consistent and integrated approach to medieval settlement studies.
		A growing proportion of late medieval settlements, and almost all of those dating from the period before c.1000 have no visible earthworks above the ground, but their sites can be discovered from crop marks and soil marks most clearly recognised from the air, and surface indications such as scatters of pottery and other occupation debris.3.
		Local vernacular architecture should also be studied: buildings from the medieval period should be recorded and analysed in their landscape context, as their form and layout is an important part of the medieval landscape; early post-medieval buildings can provide valuable indications of a continuing local building tradition (6).
	www.britarch.ac.uk /msrg/policy_statement.htm (3368 words)

	York Stories - Walks in Yorkshire: Wharram and the Wolds
		This bridge is near the entrance to the Wharram Percy medieval village.
		As the village's inhabitants left here long ago, I guess this place could feel haunted too, but it seems so sunny and open and cheerful, by contrast to the decaying Victorian railway bridge behind us.
		There are apparently around 3,000 deserted villages in England, abandoned between the 11th and 18th centuries, and Wharram Percy is just one example, but particularly well-known because of the work carried out by archaeologists here since the 1950s.
	www.yorkstories.co.uk /yorkshire_walks/wharram_walk.htm (732 words)

	Medieval Life in Bernwood Forest - Buckinghamshire County Council
		Ashendon – includes Policott deserted medieval village and nationally important remains of ridge and furrow.
		Early village map and evidence of forester in Fee’s residence with official horn held by county museum.
		Charndon – Village earthworks and county important ridge and furrow.
	www.buckscc.gov.uk /medieval_life/bernwood/history4.htm (855 words)

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