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 convention is to regard the site as deserted; if there are more than three houses, it is regarded as a shrunken medieval village . There are estimated to be more than 3,000 DMVs in England alone.
4-589: Stretton Baskerville is a deserted medieval village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire . It shares a parish council with the nearby parish of Burton Hastings . Stretton means "settlement on a Roman Road " (from the Old English stræt and tun). In this case the road is Watling Street . 52°30′58″N 1°22′57″W / 52.51617°N 1.38251°W / 52.51617; -1.38251 This Warwickshire location article
8-435: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Deserted medieval village Not all sites are medieval: villages reduced in size or disappeared over a long period, from as early as Anglo-Saxon times to as late as the 1960s, due to numerous different causes. Over the centuries, settlements have been deserted as a result of natural events, such as rivers changing course or silting up , flooding (especially during
12-428: The 15th century. At this time, Inclosure Acts and other policies allowed land traditionally cultivated for cereals and vegetables to be transformed into pastures for sheep. The medieval ridge and furrow cultivation pattern remains evident in fields, even until today. This change of land use by landowners, which was to take advantage of the profitable wool trade, led to hundreds of villages being deserted. Later,
16-595: The wet 13th and 14th centuries) as well as coastal and estuarine erosion or being overwhelmed by windblown sand. 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, most DMVs actually seem to have become deserted during
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