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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 02 SW 2 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Midley Deserted Medieval Village |
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Summary
Deserted Medieval village.
| Grid Reference: | TR 031 232 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR02SW |
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| Parish: | OLD ROMNEY, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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"At Midley [TR] 031232 the ground was completely ploughed out. Small fragments of pottery lay in the soil and there was a suggestion of a former hollow way (the church [see TR 02 SW 1] lies well off any existing road)". (1)
Air photographs of Midley do not show any former building or streets. (2)
There was a church in Domesday and in the late C14th there were 43 adults but in 1570-1 a tax of 1/15 and 1/10 produced only 4s.2d. (3)
No traces of a Deserted Medieval Village are apparent on Aerial Photographs or on the ground. (4)
Midley. TR 031232. Listed as a deserted medieval village in Kent. (5)
Maurice Beresford and John G Hurst eds. Deserted Medieval Villages, 1971 (see 5 above), list 69 places for Kent in their County Gazetteers of Deserted Medieval Villages, In most cases there is nothing to prove that there was a village at the sites in question. A deserted church site or isolated church certainly does not prove the existence of a deserted village. (6)
Other info (7).
<1> Lost Villages of Eng 1954 359 (M Beresford) (OS Card Reference). SKE46180.
<2> Md Eng 1958 189 90 (MW Beresford & JKS St Joseph) (OS Card Reference). SKE46660.
<3> Arch Cant vol 37 1925 194 (F C Elliston Erwood) (OS Card Reference). SKE36396.
<4> F1 ASP 15-MAR-1963 (OS Card Reference). SKE42126.
<5> Des Md Villages 1971 191-2 (ed M Beresford & JG Hurst) (OS Card Reference). SKE39710.
<6> Arch Cant 92 1976 10-11 (A M Everett) (OS Card Reference). SKE36068.
<7> Field report for monument TR 02 SW 2 - March, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5066.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Lost Villages of Eng 1954 359 (M Beresford). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Md Eng 1958 189 90 (MW Beresford & JKS St Joseph). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant vol 37 1925 194 (F C Elliston Erwood). |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 15-MAR-1963. |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: Des Md Villages 1971 191-2 (ed M Beresford & JG Hurst). |
| <6>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 92 1976 10-11 (A M Everett). [Mapped feature: #37854 DMV, ] |
| <7> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 02 SW 2 - March, 1963. |
