Houses on Clifton Council Housing Estate, in the area once called Glapton C 1960. This was once the site of a church, all traces of which have long disappeared, just as the village of Farworth has disappeared too. In a later publication, entitled ‘The Great Houses of Nottinghamshire and the County Families’ by Leonard Jacks in 1881, he describes the fall of the village of Farworth as follows: ‘Within the pleasure grounds there is a large mound, thickly covered with leafy shrubs and tangled undergrowth. His ‘improvement work’ included totally razing the village of Farworth. After a couple of changes of ownership, the house fell into the possession of John Monckton (who later became the 1st Viscount Galway), and he set about expanding the Serleby estate in 1740. The de Serleby family had owned Serleby Hall in the mediaeval period. This village is an example where a wealthy landowner chose to expand his estate and not have villagers intheir view of their lands. To read all the biggest and best stories first sign up to read our newsletters here. On the Nottinghamshire/ Leicestershire border is another village said to have been displaced by the plague – this time in 1604.Ĭolston Basset was removed from the immediate vicinity of the old parish church to its new location. The abandoned settlement is shown as a pattern of long-deserted houses in the vicinity of Crow Close on the Ordnance Survey map.Īccording to research carried out by the late M.W.Beresford and published in his book ‘The Lost Villages of England’, there were 70 such settlements in Nottinghamshire alone that no longer exist. The survivors moved just a couple of fields away, to the west from the old settlement, and attempted to pick up the pieces of what was left of their previously tried and tested routines. When Black Death knocked on the door of the old village in 1349, there was a tragic loss of life. The shift in location would have had no practical purpose whatsoever – but at the time, ignorance was abroad as to the cause of the pestilence. 'It comprises 1000 acres of rich land and 78 inhabitants’.īingham Market Place and the Buttercross (Image: Nottingham Post/Marie Wilson)įollowing the Black Death in the 1300s, many villagers moved and created new settlements nearby There is very little remaining of the parish of Bevercotes presently, although in 1853, despite it being a shadow of its former importance, according to White’s Directory of that year, it was stated ‘This decayed parish was once the splendid and hospitable seat of the Earls of Clare, and the first Duke of Newcastle, but has now only the ruins of a chapel, a deserted paper mill, a corn mill, and eight scattered houses on the Rivers Meden and Idle. The Domesday Book described it as Wirchenefeld.Īgain, the abbot of Rufford depopulated it around 1145. Swallowed up by Rufford Abbey was the original village of Rufford, which disappeared around 1145 when Gilbert de Gant, a Cistercian, removed it to make way for the establishment of the Abbey.Īs well as Rufford, the village of Grimston was also lost during the foundation of Rufford Abbey.Īnd in roughly the location of Inkersall Farm, west of the A614 at Bilsthorpe, there was a settlement known as 'Winkerfield' that was also lost.
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