List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom

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This list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom includes deserted medieval villages (DMVs), shrunken villages, abandoned villages and other settlements known to have been lost, depopulated or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England. Grid references are given, where known.

Contents

England

Note that in many cases English settlements are listed under the relevant historic county, rather than the modern administrative unit.

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

From Beresford's Lost Villages [8] except Old Wolverton.

Cambridgeshire

Includes former villages whose sites were in Huntingdonshire until the 1974 county boundary changes.

Cheshire

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

County Durham

Gloucestershire

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Kent

See Lost villages of the Romney Marsh for more detail.

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside

Middlesex

Norfolk

There are believed to be around 200 lost settlements in Norfolk. Many of these are deserted medieval villages.

Northamptonshire

See also List of lost settlements in Northamptonshire.

Northumberland

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

For former villages whose sites were in Berkshire until the 1974 county boundary changes please see the Berkshire section, above.

Rutland

Shropshire

Somerset

Suffolk

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Wiltshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

Scotland

Aberdeenshire

Berwickshire

Caithness

East Ayrshire

East Lothian

Fife

Highland

Lanarkshire

Moray

Na h-Eileanan Siar

Peeblesshire

Perthshire

Roxburghshire

Wales

Anglesey

Gwynedd

Powys

Monmouthshire

Neath Port Talbot

Northern Ireland

Antrim

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