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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 ...
s (DMVs), "shrunken" villages and other settlements known to have been "lost" or significantly reduced in size over the centuries.''An Inventory of Archaeological Sites in Central Northamptonshire'' (1979) HMSO, There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England alone. (Grid references are given, where known.) *
Achurch Achurch (formerly Asenciran sometimes referred to as Thorpe Achurch) is a village in the civil parish of Thorpe Achurch, in North Northamptonshire, England. Situated on a small rise above the River Nene, 5 miles South of the market town of Ound ...
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Althorp Althorp (popularly pronounced ) is a Grade I listed stately home and estate in the civil parish of Althorp, in West Northamptonshire, England of about . By road it is about northwest of the county town of Northampton and about northwest of c ...
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Armston Armston is a hamlet in Northamptonshire, England. The population is included in the civil parish of Polebrook Polebrook is a village in Northamptonshire, England. The population (including Armston) at the 2011 census was 478. History There is ...
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Astwell Astwell is a hamlet in Northamptonshire, England. With Falcutt, it is part of the civil parish of Helmdon , but formerly Astwell was split between the parishes of Syresham and Wappenham. The hamlet is northeast of Brackley and by road southwes ...
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Astwick Astwick is a hamlet and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England about south-east of the county town of Bedford. Its population is included within Stotfold civil parish. Geography Astwick is by th ...
* Badsaddle * Barford * Boughton *
Braunston Cleves or Fawcliff The village of Braunston Cleves or Fawcliff formerly stood north of the village of Braunston in the English county of Northamptonshire at its border with Warwickshire. It has long been a "lost village", having no standing buildings, but its posit ...
* Braunstonbury * Brime * Brockhall * Burghley * Calme * Caswell *
Canons Ashby Canons Ashby is a small village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Preston Capes. Its most notable building is Canons Ashby House, a N ...
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Cotes Cotes may refer to: Placename * Cotes, Cumbria, a village in England * Cotes, Leicestershire, a village in England * Cotes, Staffordshire, a village in England; see List of United Kingdom locations: Cos-Cou * Cotes, Valencia, a municipality in S ...
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Cotton Mill A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning (textiles), spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. Althou ...
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Chilcote Chilcote is a village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. Until 1897 it was in Derbyshire. The parish had a population of 108 according to the 2001 census, including Stretton-en-le-Field and in ...
* Churchfield * Church Charwelton * Doddington Thorpe *
Downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...
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Edgcote Edgcote is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chipping Warden and Edgcote, on the River Cherwell in south-west Northamptonshire, England. The parish was bounded by the river to the north and by one of its tributaries to the ...
* Elmington in Ashton * Elmington in Tansor * Elkington *
Falcutt Falcutt (or Fancote) is a hamlet in the English county of Northamptonshire. With Astwell, it forms part the civil parish of Helmdon and is south of the village of that name. Historically, Falcutt and Astwell were part of the Wappenham Wappe ...
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Fawsley Fawsley is a hamlet and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.- OS Explorer Map 207: Newport Pagnell & Northampton South (1:25 000) The population at the 2001 census was 32. At the 2011 census the population remained less than 100 and ...
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Faxton Faxton is an abandoned village and chapelry in the county of Northamptonshire in England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lie ...
* Field Burcote *
Foxley Foxley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is about 15 miles (24 km) north-west of Norwich and 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Fakenham. It covers an area of and had a population of 279 in 113 ho ...
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Furtho Furtho is a deserted medieval village and former parish in West Northamptonshire, England. It is now part of Potterspury civil parish. The origin of the village's name is uncertain: 'before the hill-spur' or 'ford hill-spur' are conjectured. ...
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Glassthorpe Glassthorpe is a deserted hamlet and manor between Flore and Upper Heyford in the Hundred of Nobottle of Daventry District, in Northamptonshire, England. Glassthorp Hill is set in Northampton Sand with an elevation of about . History Glassthorp ...
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Hale Hale may refer to: Places Australia *Hale, Northern Territory, a locality *Hale River, in southeastern Northern Territory Canada *Hale, Ontario, in Algoma District United Kingdom * Hale, Cumbria, a hamlet near Beetham, Cumbria *Hale, Greater Man ...
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Holdenby Holdenby is an English village and civil parish about north-west of Northampton in West Northamptonshire. The parish population measured by the 2011 census was 170. The village name means "Halfdan's/Haldan's farm/settlement". Prominent building ...
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Horton Horton may refer to: Places Antarctica * Horton Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica * Horton Ledge, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica Australia * Horton, Queensland, a town and locality in the Bundaberg Region * Horton River (Australia), ...
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Kelmarsh Kelmarsh is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The population (including Haselbech) of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 208. The village is on the A508, close to its junction with the A14 about south of Mark ...
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Kingsthorpe Kingsthorpe is a suburb and civil parish of Northampton, England. It is situated to the north of Northampton town centre and is served by the A508 and A5199 roads which join at Kingsthorpe's centre. The 2011 Census recorded the population of ...
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Kirby Kirby may refer to: Buildings * Kirby Building, a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas, United States * Kirby Hall, an Elizabethan country house near Corby, Northamptonshire, England * Kirby House (disambiguation), various houses in England and the Unit ...
* Kirby in Blakesley * Kirby in Gretton * Knuston * Lilford * Little Creaton * Little Newton *
Little Oxendon Little Oxendon is a deserted medieval village about one mile north of Great Oxendon (where any population is included) at . A number of primary sources for some of the details that appear below are quoted by John Bridges in his history of Northam ...
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Lolham Lolham is a hamlet in the City of Peterborough in England, located between Peterborough and Stamford on the border of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. Lolham is located to the west of Maxey and to the south of West Deeping and is surrounded by ...
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Lower Catesby Lower Catesby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Catesby, Northamptonshire, about southwest of Daventry. Lower Catesby is beside the nascent River Leam, which rises about to the south in the parish of Hellidon. The Jurassic Way long-distance ...
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Mawsley Mawsley is a newly built village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England. At the time of the 2011 census, the parish had a population of 2,320. History The village’s name means 'Gravel ridge wood/clearing'. The Domesday hundred ...
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Milton Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...
* Murcott * Muscott * Nether Catesby * Newbottle * Newbottle in Harrington * Nobold *
Nobottle Nobottle is a hamlet in West Northamptonshire in England. The population is included in the civil parish of Brington. It borders the Althorp estate, which owns much of the property. Nobottle used to have a 600yd rifle range (the only one in No ...
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Nunton Nunton is a small village and former civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Salisbury. The former parish included the small village of Bodenham, to the east. Nunton is on the River Ebble, while Bodenham is close to the juncti ...
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Pipewell Pipewell is situated in North Northamptonshire, a mile away from Corby. With 63 inhabitants, it is one of the smallest hamlets in Northamptonshire. The population remained less than 100 at the 2011 Census and the population was included in the c ...
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Preston Deanery Preston Deanery is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hackleton in West Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire, England. It is south of Northampton town centre and by road to the M1 motorway, M1 London to Yorkshire motorway junction 15. It lie ...
* Onley * Overstone * Rushton Saint Peter *
Seawell Seawell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron A. F. Seawell (1864–1950), North Carolina politician and jurist * Buie Seawell (born 1937), professor at the University of Denver, attorney, and former Colorado Democratic Par ...
* Sibberton * Silsworth * Snorscomb *
Stanford Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ...
* Steane * Strixton * Stuchbury * Sulby * Thorpe * Thorpe Lubenham *
Thrupp Thrupp, a variant of the Middle English word ''thorp'', meaning hamlet or small village, and may refer to: People * Arthur Thomas Thrupp (1828–1889), English Royal Navy officer * Darren Thrupp (born 1966), Australian Paralympic athlete * Dorothy ...
* Torpel *
Trafford Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, with an estimated population of 235,493 in 2017. It covers Retrieved on 13 December 2007. and includes the area of Old Trafford and the towns of Altrincham, Stretford, Ur ...
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Upper Catesby Upper Catesby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Catesby, Northamptonshire, about southwest of Daventry. The hamlet is about above sea level, at the top of a northwest-facing escarpment. The population is included in the civil parish of Helli ...
* Upton * Walcot *
Walton Walton may refer to: People * Walton (given name) * Walton (surname) * Susana, Lady Walton (1926–2010), Argentine writer Places Canada * Walton, Nova Scotia, a community ** Walton River (Nova Scotia) *Walton, Ontario, a hamlet United Kingdo ...
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Wolfhampcote Wolfhampcote is an abandoned village and civil parish in the English counties of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, which it straddles. The civil parish of Wolfhampcote in Rugby borough, includes the old village, plus the nearby village of Fl ...
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Wothorpe Wothorpe is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. It is in the far north-west of the district, and to the south of Stamford (in Lincolnshire). The parish borders Northamptonshire to the west ...
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Wythmail The deserted village of Wythmail is located 4.5 miles south of Kettering in the English county of Northamptonshire. The village of Orlingbury is 1.1 miles to the east. Wythmail was part of the parish of Orlingbury. History In the Domesday Book, ...


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