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Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green is a scheduled ancient monument preserving evidence of a medieval settlement in Buckinghamshire that underwent contraction during the post-medieval period. The site comprises earthworks and field features indicative of former habitation, including the remains of house platforms, crofts, and the pattern of former cultivation that characterises a deserted or significantly reduced medieval village. Dating principally to the medieval period, the monument testifies to the demographic and economic changes that affected English rural settlements from the later medieval period onwards, when many villages experienced depopulation or shrinkage due to factors including enclosure and shifting agricultural practices. The physical remains, visible as low banks and linear features in the landscape, constitute an important archaeological resource for understanding medieval settlement patterns and the processes of village abandonment and transformation that occurred across southern England.
Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007938. View the official record →
Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green is a scheduled ancient monument preserving evidence of a medieval settlement in Buckinghamshire that underwent contraction during the post-medieval period.
Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green 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 1007938.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval manor of Simpson (1.9 km), Shrunken medieval village at Caldecotte (2.9 km), Moated site with associated earthworks, 770m south of St Mary's Church, south of the junction of Childs Way and Fulmer Street (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green'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.
Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.