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.
12-404: Kettleby may refer to: Kettleby, Lincolnshire (also spelled Kettelby), England Kettleby, Ontario , Canada Ab Kettleby , Leicestershire, England Eye Kettleby, near Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire, England [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
24-424: Is a Grade I listed building dedicated to All Saints . It dates from the 12th century, with later additions and restorations in 1779 and 1878. On the north side of the chancel is a large alabaster tomb to Sir Robert Tyrwhit of Kettleby hamlet, who died in 1581, and his wife. To the east is a monument to Sir Robert Tyrwhit of Kettleby, who died in 1617, and Lady Bridget Manners his wife who died in 1604. Bigby
36-619: Is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire , England. The village is situated about 10 miles (20 km) south from the Humber Bridge , and 4 miles (6 km) east from the town of Brigg . The village lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds , a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and close to the administrative border with North Lincolnshire . The hamlets of Kettleby and Kettleby Thorpe lie within
48-635: Is one of four Thankful Villages in Lincolnshire, because it lost no men in the First World War. There is a war memorial in the parish churchyard in remembrance of a local man and his comrade shot down during the Second World War. Pingley Farm, or Camp 81, was the site of a Second World War Prisoner-of-war camp . Purpose-built to house 750 low-risk Italian prisoners, by May 1946 Pingley camp held 984. The camp has been demolished as of January 2009, and
60-603: 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
72-457: 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 the deaths of their inhabitants from the Black Death in the mid-14th century. While
84-537: The parish, and that of Somerby almost immediately to the south. According to the 2001 census Bigby had a population of 234, increasing to 347 at the 2011 census. The name Bigby comes from an Old Norse personal name 'Bekki' + Old Norse 'býr', meaning "settlement" or "farmstead". Bigby is recorded in the Domesday account as "Bechebi", with the Lord of the manor as William son of Nigel. The local Anglican parish church
96-467: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kettleby&oldid=827555905 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kettleby, Lincolnshire Bigby
108-564: The site redeveloped as housing. The area is being developed with ten luxury executive houses. The first was started in July 2010. The hamlet of Kettleby (sometimes spelled Kettelby ) lies about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Bigby village. The deserted medieval village (DMV) of Kettleby was first recorded in a will of 1066. Domesday records two manors: Kettleby, whose Lord of the Manor was Ralph, nephew of Geoffrey Alselin, and Kettleby Thorpe, whose Lord
120-403: Was demolished in 1696â97. The present farmhouse on the site dates from the nineteenth century. [REDACTED] Media related to Bigby, Lincolnshire at Wikimedia Commons 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
132-458: Was listed only as Gilbert. Thereafter Kettleby merged with Kettleby Thorpe, also a deserted settlement. Kettleby is mentioned in 1334. Today the area is occupied by the earthworks of Kettleby Hall. Kettleby Hall was reputedly a moated hunting lodge built in the reign of James I and later the chief seat of the Tyrwhitt family. The last male heir sold-up in 1648 because of debts, and the building
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#1732854983919144-410: 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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