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Littlecote, in the English county of
Buckinghamshire, also known as Lidcote, was a village about eight miles north of
Aylesbury. A settlement with ten households 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 manus ...
of 1086. In the late 15th century, the landowner, Thomas Pigott, started to
enclose land for sheep grazing, which was for him a profitable use of the land. By 1507, enclosure had been completed and the village had been depopulated and destroyed.
The present settlement consists of a farm and a dispersed hamlet, in
Stewkley
Stewkley is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about east of Winslow and about west of Leighton Buzzard. The civil parish includes the hamlets of No ...
parish.
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Deserted medieval villages in Buckinghamshire
Forcibly depopulated communities in the United Kingdom
Hamlets in Buckinghamshire
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