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  2. List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Leicestershire Deserted Villages and Lost Places - Wikipedia

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    The university's continuing annual excavation of the Burrough Hill site has highlighted its long residential history and subsequent decline. The Knave Hill abandoned Saxon settlement which was featured by Time Team on Channel 4 in 2008, also brought greater and wider recognition of the wealth of deserted and lost places in Leicestershire.

  4. List of lost settlements in Norfolk - Wikipedia

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    Deserted medieval village site abandoned by the mid 18th century. The modern village was abandoned by the remaining 37 residents in 1942 when the Stanford Training Area was established. [44] [140] Langhale Village mentioned in the Domesday Book. Probably a dispersed settlement with the parish church in ruins by the early 16th century.

  5. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    Property law. In property law, lost, mislaid, and abandoned property are categories of the common law of property which deals with personal property or chattel which has left the possession of its rightful owner without having directly entered the possession of another person. Property can be considered lost, mislaid, or abandoned depending on ...

  6. Woodchester Mansion - Wikipedia

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    Structural system. Cotswold stone. /vaulting. Design and construction. Architect (s) Benjamin Bucknall. Woodchester Mansion is an unfinished, Gothic revival mansion house in Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, England. It is on the site of an earlier house known as Spring Park. The mansion is a Grade I listed building.

  7. Where Cities Are Practically Giving Away Abandoned Homes - AOL

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    The maximum annual household income must be $72,100 or less. Plans call for the program to expand to such towns as Champaign, in the central part of the state and home to the University of ...

  8. Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain - Wikipedia

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    In rural areas, the destruction of the country houses and their estates was tantamount to a social revolution. Well into the 20th century, it was common for the local squire to provide large-scale employment, housing, and patronage to the village school, parish church, and a cottage hospital. The "big house" was the bedrock of rural society.

  9. List of lost settlements in Hertfordshire - Wikipedia

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    Landscaping - village destroyed or relocated to create parkland for a noble's house. Pendley, destroyed soon after 1440 for Sir Robert Whittingham. Kitts End was incorporated in the Byng (Viscount Torrington) family's Wrotham Park estate in the 19th century having dwindled after the construction of a new Barnet - Ridge Hill road in 1826.

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