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Deserted Medieval Village is a scheduled ancient monument in Buckinghamshire comprising the earthwork remains of a settlement abandoned during the medieval period. The site preserves archaeological evidence of former dwellings, field systems, and settlement patterns typical of villages depopulated through processes of enclosure or economic change between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The visible earthworks include house platforms, hollow ways, and ridge-and-furrow cultivation patterns that document the physical layout and agricultural organisation of the former community. Such deserted villages represent important archaeological witnesses to medieval rural life and the social transformations that reshaped the English countryside in the later medieval period.
Deserted medieval village is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006921. View the official record →
Deserted Medieval Village is a scheduled ancient monument in Buckinghamshire comprising the earthwork remains of a settlement abandoned during the medieval period.
Deserted medieval village is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006921.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthworks near Brill Church (3.2 km), Brill pottery kilns (3.3 km), Moated site 110m south west of St Mary's Church (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Deserted medieval village's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Deserted medieval village stands on West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Kimmeridgian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.