Tag: Lost places

• The Villages That Vanished

  

  England has thousands of deserted medieval villages. I mapped all 2,222 in Beresford’s gazetteer and set them against Domesday Book: the doomed were already smaller in 1086, and most emptied long after the Black Death.

  Tristan Hotham

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  cities, Domesday, Domesday Book, Enclosure, England, landscape, Lost places, medieval, Plague, population