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After Hoskins left Leicester the research work was continued by the Deserted Medieval Village Research Group based at the same university. The group published a list of Leicestershire Deserted Medieval Villages edited by J. G. Hurst and M. W. Beresford, in the Transactions of the Society in 1964. [5]
Pages in category "Deserted medieval villages in Leicestershire" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Bittesby Deserted Medieval Village, perhaps formed out of a larger, earlier parish centred on a former Romano-British settlement at Duninc Wicon that also included Ullesthorpe as an outlying settlement [25] Bradgate SK535103 Deserted Medieval Village in Newtown Linford, abandoned for the building of Bradgate House
Wistow is a deserted medieval village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in the English county of Leicestershire, and lies seven miles south-east of the city of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1 April 1936 it has included most of the former civil parish of Newton Harcourt [2] which was a chapelry of Wistow. The ...
Deserted medieval villages in Leicestershire (15 P) H. Hamlets in Leicestershire (58 P) R. Redmile (6 P) S. Shackerstone (9 P) Somerby, Leicestershire (7 P) T ...
Alton is a deserted medieval village between Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in North West Leicestershire, England. The earliest documentation of the village is found in the Domesday Book where it appears as Heletone. [1] The land was rented out to someone by Hugh de Grandmesnil, and had a total value of 60 shillings. There were 25 villagers ...
Ingarsby is one of the best preserved deserted medieval villages in England. It is situated about six miles (10 km) to the east of Leicester , and a little to the north of Houghton on the Hill . The majority of the site, which is situated on a west facing slope and lies on both sides of the Houghton to Hungarton (where the remaining population ...
The earthworks of Leicestershire include hill-top camps of the 1st century BC and the sites of deserted villages abandoned in the later Middle Ages. There are hill-forts, Roman camps (e.g. Ratby), linear earthworks, castle-sites (e.g.Hallaton), moated homesteads and sites of deserted villages (e.g. Ingarsby). The remains of prehistoric burial ...