Cold Hanworth medieval settlement is a
deserted medieval village
In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convent ...
in
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
, England, next to the village of
Cold Hanworth
Cold Hanworth is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, and just north of the A46. It is combined with Hackthorn to form the ...
and about north of
Lincoln
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* Lincoln ...
. It is a
Scheduled Monument
In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.
The various pieces of legislation that legally protect heritage assets from damage and d ...
.
History
The village was recorded in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
of 1086.
It was in decline from the mid 14th century. In the 17th century parts had been
enclosed
Enclosure or Inclosure is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land" enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their rights of access and privilege. Agreements to enclose land ...
for pasture, and by the 18th century it was mostly depopulated.
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Earthworks
The remains of the medieval village are immediately south and east of All Saints Church (a 19th-century building on the site of a medieval church). The remains of the main street of the village runs south of the church, where there is a modern pond; it curves eastwards for about , and turns northwards to the edge of the modern field. The remains of houses and outbuildings survive as rectangular ditched enclosures along both sides of the main street.[
Immediately west of the church are further traces of the medieval settlement, overlain by post-medieval remains: there are traces here of a north–south street, which was the northern route to the settlement.][
To the west and east of the earthworks can be seen the ]ridge and furrow
Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges (Medieval Latin: ''sliones'') and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open-field system. It is also known as rig (or rigg) and fu ...
pattern, of the open-field system
The open-field system was the prevalent agricultural system in much of Europe during the Middle Ages and lasted into the 20th century in Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Each manor or village had two or three large fields, usually several hundred acre ...
of medieval cultivation, surviving to a height of up to .[
]
See also
* List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom
This list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom includes deserted medieval villages (DMVs), shrunken villages, abandoned villages and other settlements known to have been lost, depopulated or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. T ...
References
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Deserted medieval villages in Lincolnshire
Scheduled monuments in Lincolnshire