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The university's continuing annual excavation of the Burrough Hill site has highlighted its long residential history and subsequent decline. The Knave Hill abandoned Saxon settlement which was featured by Time Team on Channel 4 in 2008, also brought greater and wider recognition of the wealth of deserted and lost places in Leicestershire.
Pages in category "Deserted medieval villages in Leicestershire" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Knaptoft is situated on a ridge due south of Shearsby 0.85 miles (1.37 km), between the villages of Bruntingthorpe 1.51 miles (2.43 km) to the west and Mowsley to the east 1.31 miles (2.11 km). The soils are "Slowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soils", according to UK Soil Observatory results. [ 3 ]
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 ...
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 ...
This list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom includes deserted medieval villages (DMVs), shrunken villages, abandoned villages and other settlements known to have been lost, depopulated or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England.
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 ...
Leicestershire 52°33′30″N 1°03′10″W / 52.5582802°N 1.0529135°W / 52.5582802; -1.0529135 Foston is a deserted medieval village and former civil parish , now in the parish of Kilby , in the Blaby district of Leicestershire and lies approximately 6.1 miles (9.8 km) south of the city of Leicester , England.