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Types of lost settlement include deserted medieval villages (DMVs), relocated or "shrunken" villages, those lost to coastal erosion and other settlements known to have been "lost" or significantly reduced in size over the centuries, including those evacuated during World War II due to the creation of the Stanford Training Area. There are ...
Egmere medieval settlement is a deserted medieval village in Norfolk, England, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of Walsingham.
Deserted medieval villages in Norfolk (14 P) Hamlets in Norfolk (39 P) A. ... Pages in category "Villages in Norfolk" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
It is known from external evidence from excavations and place-names that by c. 800 AD all Norfolk had been settled and the first towns had emerged. Norfolk was the northern half of the Kingdom of East Anglia and was ruled by the Anglo-Saxon Wuffing dynasty. Our knowledge of several Wuffings is scant, as few historical documents of the period ...
Pages in category "Deserted medieval villages in Norfolk" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It is thought that villages near Norwich became deserted at the end of the medieval period due to people migrating to the city. [2] The church of St Wandregeselius is on the western edge of the site. Its tower dates from the early 14th century; the rest of the church dates from 1868. It is a Grade II* listed building. [3]
Alethorpe is a deserted medieval village site and former civil parish, now in the parish of Little Snoring, in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It lies south-east of Little Snoring, around 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of the town Fakenham and 23 miles (37 km) north-west of Norwich to the north of the A148 road . [ 1 ]
South-west of the modern trackway, the medieval main street runs through what was a green (shown on the map of 1714) of width about 32 metres (105 ft). East of the green, there is a north-west facing scarp, height about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in), the area above the scarp being divided by two discernable trackways, of width about 6 metres (20 ft ...