In 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.
9-537: Burton Dassett is a parish and shrunken medieval village in the Stratford-upon-Avon district of Warwickshire , England . The population (including the village of Knightcote ) of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,322. Much of the area is now in the Burton Dassett Hills country park. It was enclosed for sheep farming by Sir Edward Belknap and John Heritage at the end of the 15th century. It
18-435: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Deserted medieval village Not all sites are medieval: villages reduced in size or disappeared over 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
27-518: Is located around the environs of the hamlet of Coton and Coton Manor House in the English county of Northamptonshire . The lost village of Coton has an entry as an independent manor in the Domesday Book of 1086. Then the population was recorded as nine residents. Not much else is known after that survey about Coton until the 17th century when it was recorded that there were eight households paying
36-428: 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 was to take advantage of the profitable wool trade, led to hundreds of villages being deserted. Later,
45-410: The 1673 Hearth Tax . In 1791 there were 17 houses in the village. By 1839 this number had reduced to 15. Coton lies entirely along today’s single street that runs through the hamlet. On the western side of the street today there are no dwellings but in 1839 records show that there were six dwellings and a farm to the north of these; all have now been destroyed. Also the land between the main street and
54-1113: 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 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 . Coton, Northamptonshire (lost settlement) The lost village of Coton
63-534: 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 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
72-435: The wife. The twelfth (undivided) shield represents Temple's son George who died young and therefore did not marry. Susannah Smith, the wife of agriculturalist Jethro Tull was born in the village. Previously known as Chipping Dassett due to its relatively large and successful market. 52°09′43″N 1°25′08″W / 52.162°N 1.419°W / 52.162; -1.419 This Warwickshire location article
81-507: Was the home of Sir Thomas Temple as a child, and for several generations was regarded by the Temple family of Stowe Buckinghamshire as their ancestral home. There is a heraldic memorial to John Temple and his children in Burton Dassett church. Each of the twelve shields represents one of John Temple's children. The left half of each shield represents the husband and the right half represents
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