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12-565: The tree can be found on Bowthorpe Park Farm. 'Bowthorpe' is the name of a deserted medieval village . The farm offers pre-booked private tours of the tree. The hollow interior of the trunk had been fitted with seats and has apparently been used as a dining room for 20 people in the past. The tree has now been fenced to protect the roots from soil compaction . The oak was selected as one of 50 Great British Trees picked by The Tree Council in 2002 to spotlight trees in Great Britain in honour of

24-436: A long period, from as early as Anglo-Saxon times to as late as the 1960s, due to numerous different causes. Over the centuries, settlements have been deserted as a result of natural events, such as rivers changing course or silting up , flooding (especially during the wet 13th and 14th centuries) as well as coastal and estuarine erosion or being overwhelmed by windblown sand. Many were thought to have been abandoned due to

36-753: Is at Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire , because of the extensive archaeological excavations conducted there between its discovery in 1948 and 1990. Its ruined church and its former fishpond are still visible. In Northamptonshire , around 100 villages can be classified as deserted: there are articles relating to many of them, such as Onley , Althorp , Canons Ashby , Church Charwelton and Coton along with Faxton , Glendon , Snorscombe , Wolfhampcote and Wythmail . Other examples are at Gainsthorpe and Burreth in Lincolnshire . Canons Ashby (lost settlement) The lost village of Canons Ashby

48-606: Is listed in the Domesday book of 1086 with a recorded population of 16. In 1105 an Augustinian priory was founded here at the southern end of the village. The priory soon became the owner of most of the parish. In 1301, 18 residents had paid the Lay Subsidy, which was a tax based on the value of lands and possessions and was used to raise money for the Crown to facilitate such things as payment of military forces and building of ships. In 1316

60-541: Is located in ground to the north of Canons Ashby House in the English county of Northamptonshire . Today there is still a small village around the house but this is located away from the original settlement, since the original settlement is now just field occupied by a herd of cows. Ascebi is the name of the medieval village that is the lost settlement, Canons Ashby itself is currently not lost at all and people can easily find it on any map. The lost village of Canons Ashby

72-667: The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II . The Bowthorpe Oak is featured in The Guinness Book of Records and was filmed for a short TV documentary about its size. It also appeared in the 2017 documentary Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor , hosted by George McGavin about the life of oak trees. It was a filming location for the 2011 film Hollow , directed by Michael Axelgaard. 52°43′30.69″N 0°25′16.49″W  /  52.7251917°N 0.4212472°W  / 52.7251917; -0.4212472 Deserted medieval village In

84-679: The United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village ( DMV ) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages , typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks . If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convention is to regard the site as deserted; if there are more than three houses, it is regarded as a shrunken medieval village . There are estimated to be more than 3,000 DMVs in England alone. Not all sites are medieval: villages reduced in size or disappeared over

96-692: The deaths of their inhabitants from the Black Death in the mid-14th century. While the plague must often have greatly hastened the population decline, which had already set in by the early 14th century in England because of soil exhaustion and disease, most DMVs actually seem to have become deserted during the 15th century. At this time, Inclosure Acts and other policies allowed land traditionally cultivated for cereals and vegetables to be transformed into pastures for sheep. The medieval ridge and furrow cultivation pattern remains evident in fields, even until today. This change of land use by landowners, which

108-414: The parish. The Hearth Tax returns of 1674 show only five tax-payers in the parish. The surviving earthworks on the site are in good condition and indicate the large size of this lost village. The original main street was on the line of the north-south running lane that still leads past Canons Ashby House. There are hollow ways that cross the lane east to west indicating other village thoroughfares. To

120-416: The prior evicted another 24 people from their homes. By 1524 there were only 21 residents eligible for tax and by 1535 this number had dropped to nine. On the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 the village and the priory came into the ownership of Sir Francis Bryon who in turn sold it to Sir John Cope a year later. This probably saw the demise of the village as Cope is recorded as having 2,000 sheep upon

132-492: The village has an entry in the Nomina Villarum , which was a list made of all cities, boroughs and townships, and the lords of them, which was carried out for King Edward III . In 1343 there were 41 houses in the village. In 1377 the poll tax was paid by 82 people of the village. The prior of the nearby priory enclosed some land of the village depriving it of 100 acres (0.40 km ) and destroying three houses. In 1492

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144-410: Was to take advantage of the profitable wool trade, led to hundreds of villages being deserted. Later, the aristocratic fashion for grand country mansions , parks and landscaped gardens led to whole villages being moved or destroyed to enable lords of the manor to participate in this trend: a process often called emparkment or enclosure . Perhaps the best-known deserted medieval village in England

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