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Deserted Medieval Villages
from across the County
 

Name

Parish

Grid Reference

Reason for Desertion

Period of Desertion

Documentation

Extant

Comments

Barcote

Littleworth

SU 320979

Enclosure

1450-1700

Good

Manor House

 

Beckett

Shrivenham

SU 246892

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Good

Manor House

 

Betterton

Lockinge

SU 431868

Enclosure

1450-1700

Average

Manor House

 

Bockhampton

Lambourn

SU 335782

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Average

Farm

Very Shrunk

Calcote

Hungerford

SU 340698

Enclosure

1450-1700

Average

 

Exact Location Unknown

Carswell

Littleworth

SU 325978

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Average

Farm

 

Clapcot

Brightwell

SU 605916

Enclosure

1450-1700

Average

Manor House

 

Cruchfield

Bray

SU 880740

Enclosure

1450-1700

Average

Manor House

 

East Compton

Compton

SU 525796

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Average

Church

Poor Archaeology

Draycott

Longworth

SU400994

Unknown

Unknown

Poor

Farm

 

Eaton Hastings

Eaton Hastings

SU 260982

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Good

Church

Medium Archaeology

Fulscot

South Moreton

SU 545888

Enclosure

1450-1700

Good

Farm

 

Henwick

Thatcham

SU 498686

Black Death

1350-1450

Good

Manor House

 

Hillend

Wytham

SU 466065

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Good

 

 

Hodcot

West Ilsley

SU 477818

Black Death

1350-1450

Good

Farm

 

Holt

Kintbury

SU 401645

Unknown

Unknown

Good

Manor House

 

Langley

Hampstead Norreys

SU 498766

Black Death

1350-1450

Good

Manor House

 

Inglewood

Kintbury

SU 365666

Enclosure

1450-1700

Average

Manor House

 

Maidencourt

East Garston

SU 373760

Enclosure

1450-1701

Average

Farm

 

Marlston

Bucklebury

SU 529719

Enclosure

1450-1702

Average

Manor House

 

Newton

Buckland

SU 360980

Enclosure

1450-1703

Average

Manor House

 

Odstone

Ashbury

SU 271862

Enclosure

1450-1704

Good

Farm

 

Purley Parva

Purley

SU 654769

Enclosure

1450-1705

Average

Manor House

 

Seacourt

Wytham

SP 486075

Black Death

1350-1450

Good

 

Road Pattern Discernible

Shalford

Brimpton

SU 569648

Enclosure

1450-1705

Average

Manor House

 

Sheffield

Burghfield

SU 653693

Unknown

Unknown

Good

 

 

East Shefford

East Shefford

SU 391747

Unknown

Unknown

Good

Manor House & Church

Shottesbrooke

Shottesbrooke

SU 842771

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Good

Manor House & Church

Southcote

Denchworth

SU 375910

Enclosure

1450-1700

Good

Manor House

 

Stroud

Cumnor

SU 444075

Emparking

17th-18th C.

Good

 

 

Thrupp

Radley

SU 518973

Unknown

Unknown

Average

 

 

Tubney

Appleton

SP 446010

Enclosure

1450-1700

Good

Manor House

 

Whatcombe

Fawley

SU 393789

Enclosure

1450-1700

Average

Farm

 

Whitley

Cumnor

SP 442053

Black Death

1350-1450

Good

 

Exact Location Unknown

Woolley

Chaddleworth

SU 410800

Enclosure

1450-1700

Good

Manor House

 

Wyld Court

Hampstead Norreys

SU 543760

Enclosure

1450-1700

Average

Farm

 

Based on the work of M.W. Beresford & J.G. Hurst (1962).

  

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