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Over the years the "deserted village of Feltville" was a mill town, a farming community, and a summer resort. Only three families remain as permanent residents, while the remainder of the site is open to visitors who wish to learn of its history or to simply enjoy the forested surroundings.
The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary , and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth. The poem is written in heroic couplets , and describes the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America.
Allaire Village is the history of a particular geological formation and the man who was drawn to it because of his business needs. Throughout the course of his ownership, James Peter Allaire created a thriving community centered around the bog iron industry, with his company known as Howell Works, which was just one of his business concerns.
Bittesby Deserted Medieval Village, perhaps formed out of a larger, earlier parish centred on a former Romano-British settlement at Duninc Wicon that also included Ullesthorpe as an outlying settlement [25] Bradgate SK535103 Deserted Medieval Village in Newtown Linford, abandoned for the building of Bradgate House
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer and naturalist who is best known for his works The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
From 1250 to its decline around 1600, Trellech was a booming iron-melting centre. The scheduled area is close to the present village centre but an ongoing archaeological dig further south has found many building foundations. Monmouthshire Medieval MM272 [167] Tump Terrett Castle Mound: Motte Trellech United
Painstaking research has related it to the Gillethorp listed in the Leicestershire Survey of about 1130 and located it between Somerby and Newbold Saucey, [21] the latter itself a Deserted Medieval Village. Leicester. Many people have not considered the possibility of deserted or lost places amongst the complex of buildings that cover a major city.
An example is that of a field containing ridge-and-furrow, which is an indicator of a medieval open field system of farming situated between the scheduled monument and Quarrendon House Farm. [4] There are two deserted village sites which are considered to both belong a single medieval settlement which shifted, during the medieval period, from a ...