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20 in-depth reports on Britain's most significant historical locations

From Viking silver hoards to abandoned medieval villages, Iron Age hillforts to Roman legionary fortresses — each report shows what Aubrey Research can reveal about any British location.

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Genealogy Parish

Myddle, Shropshire

Shropshire, England

A Shropshire village immortalised by Richard Gough's extraordinary 1701 parish history — organised pew by pew, family by family, across three centuries of local life.

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Metal-Detecting Hoard

Watlington Hoard

Oxfordshire, England

Found by a metal detectorist in 2015 near Watlington, this late ninth-century Viking hoard rewrote what historians knew about the relationship between Alfred the Great and his Mercian ally.

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Metal-Detecting Hoard

Vale of York Hoard

North Yorkshire, England

Unearthed in 2007 near Harrogate, this Viking silver hoard — 617 items packed inside a Frankish silver cup — was buried around the time Æthelstan expelled the last Viking king from York.

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Historical Village

Eyam, Derbyshire

Derbyshire, England

In 1665, plague arrived in Eyam in a parcel of cloth from London. The village chose to quarantine itself, sacrificing hundreds of lives to prevent the disease spreading to its neighbours.

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Metal-Detecting Hoard

Lenborough Hoard

Buckinghamshire, England

Over 5,000 Anglo-Saxon silver coins found at a Weekend Wanderers detecting rally in December 2014 — one of the largest hoards of its kind ever discovered in Britain.

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Metal-Detecting Hoard

Cuerdale Hoard

Lancashire, England

Found by workmen on the banks of the River Ribble in 1840, the Cuerdale Hoard remains the largest Viking silver hoard ever discovered in Britain — over 8,600 pieces of coin, bullion, and jewellery.

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Metal-Detecting Hoard

Fishpool Hoard

Nottinghamshire, England

A buried treasure of medieval gold coins, rings, and jewellery hidden in Nottinghamshire woodland around 1464 — probably by a Lancastrian fleeing the Wars of the Roses.

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Roman Hoard

Ploughed up in wartime Suffolk in 1942, the Mildenhall Treasure is the finest collection of Roman silver ever found in Britain — and the subject of a Roald Dahl short story about a discovery kept secret for four years.

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Deserted Medieval Village

Godwick, Norfolk

Norfolk, England

Norfolk's most accessible deserted medieval village, with earthworks, a ruined barn, and a moated manor site visible to visitors — abandoned in the sixteenth century when sheep proved more profitable than people.

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Deserted Medieval Village

Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, England

Once the home of Sir Henry Lee — Queen's Champion to Elizabeth I — Quarrendon is a Buckinghamshire ghost village with a ruined church, a moated manor, and earthworks visible from the road.

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Deserted Medieval Village

Wolfhampcote, Warwickshire

Warwickshire, England

A Norman church stands alone in Warwickshire fields, surrounded by the earthworks of a village that vanished five centuries ago — one of the most atmospheric deserted settlement sites in the Midlands.

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Living Heritage

Laxton, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire, England

England's last working open-field village: three great fields farmed in medieval strips under the authority of a Court Leet that still meets every year to settle disputes over the land.

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Historical Village

Hubberholme, Yorkshire

North Yorkshire, England

A handful of houses, a Norman church with one of England's last medieval rood lofts, and the place where JB Priestley asked for his ashes to be scattered — Hubberholme is the Dales at their most elemental.

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Historical Village

Croscombe, Somerset

Somerset, England

A Somerset village whose medieval wool wealth is preserved in the finest Jacobean church fittings in the county — carved screen, pulpit, and bench ends that have stood for four hundred years.

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Estate Village

Great Tew, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire, England

A Cotswold stone village so perfectly preserved it looks deliberately composed — because it was, laid out by J.C. Loudon in 1809 for a Birmingham industrialist's son, then made notorious in the twentieth century by three decades of studied neglect before a determined restoration.

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Deserted Medieval Village

Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire, England

England's most studied deserted medieval village — forty years of excavation on a Yorkshire Wolds hilltop exposed everything from Viking-period farmsteads to the last cottages before the landlord's sheep arrived — and the church, abandoned in 1949, still stands ruined in the valley.

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Iron Age Hillfort

Cadbury Castle, Somerset

Somerset, England

The most famous Arthurian Camelot candidate in England — a major Iron Age hillfort near Yeovil that was reoccupied and rebuilt in the late fifth century, at exactly the time the historical Arthur may have lived.

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Deserted Medieval Village

Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire, England

A shrunken Oxfordshire hamlet where a ruined manor house stands open to the sky beside the River Cherwell, the earthworks of a medieval village spread across the adjacent fields, and the railway embankment marks the site of one of the worst Christmas Eve disasters in Victorian England.

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Iron Age Hillfort

Old Oswestry, Shropshire

Shropshire, England

One of Britain's most complex and best-preserved Iron Age hillforts — up to seven circuits of earthwork ramparts rising above the Shropshire plain, built and elaborated over five centuries by the communities who made this border hilltop a regional centre of power.

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Hoard Find Site

Hallaton, Leicestershire

Leicestershire, England

A Leicestershire village field that produced Britain's largest Iron Age coin hoard — 5,298 coins, a silver-gilt Roman parade helmet of exceptional quality, and evidence of large-scale ritual feasting, all found by local metal detectorists and recovered in a decade-long community excavation.

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