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Many were thought to have been abandoned due to the deaths of their inhabitants from the Black Death in the mid-14th century. While the plague must often have greatly hastened the population decline, which had already set in by the early 14th century in England because of soil exhaustion and disease, [ citation needed ] most DMVs actually seem ...
Abandoned village in Russia The remains of a fieldstone church in Dangelsdorf Germany, from the 14th century Moggessa di Qua near Moggio Udinese/Italy Glanzenberg, a 13th-century town in Unterengstringen, Switzerland Villa Epecuén . An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout ...
Following the Black Death, the village was abandoned, and the church stood empty for centuries. In 1901 it was purchased by an antiquarian, George Matthews Arnold, Mayor of Gravesend. [6] He restored the walls and roof of the church and in 1954 the Arnold family returned the building to the Catholic Church. [7]
It is the period from the early medieval period onwards that has excited most public interest in lost places, especially the Deserted Medieval Villages of the county. In some cases, their depopulation was due to the national economic decline that was accelerated by the Black Death in the 14th century. [17]
The Black Death quickly entered common folklore in many European countries. In Northern Europe, the plague was personified as an old, bent woman covered and hooded in black, carrying a broom and a rake. Norwegians told that if she used the rake, some of the population involved might survive, escaping through the teeth of the rake.
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3]
The reason for the village's depopulation is unknown, but the poor agriculture, a move away from arable farming, a change in climate and the black death have been all been considered as possible reasons. [1] The site was identified by the County of Derbyshire in 1956 as a scheduled monument.
The village was mentioned as Ufelmscote in the Domesday Book, and was abandoned sometime in the late 14th century and is classified as a deserted medieval village. Local legend suggests that the village was wiped out by the Black Death brought in by refugees from London , but there is no evidence to support this.