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Deserted village is a medieval settlement site located in Shropshire that represents the remains of a formerly inhabited community abandoned during the medieval period. The site survives as earthwork features including ridge-and-furrow field systems, house platforms, and hollow ways that mark the pattern of habitation and land use. Such deserted medieval villages are significant archaeological monuments that illuminate social, economic, and demographic changes in medieval England, particularly the reorganisation of settlements and agricultural practices during the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. The physical landscape at this location preserves important evidence of daily life and settlement organisation in medieval times.
Deserted village is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006277. View the official record →
Deserted village is a medieval settlement site located in Shropshire that represents the remains of a formerly inhabited community abandoned during the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006277.
Deserted 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 1006277.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Camp Ring motte and bailey castle, enclosure, fishpond and ridge and furrow 400m east of Culmington Farm (7.1 km), Lower Cleeton moat, a moat and fishponds 380m south east of Cleeton Court (8.2 km), Moated site, Park Hall mansion and an associated cockpit 320m and 325m south east of Lower Court (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Deserted 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 village stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.