List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom

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.

England

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

Bedfordshire

Berkshire[6]

Cambridgeshire

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

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

Durham

East Riding of Yorkshire

See Category:Lost villages and towns of the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Sussex[15]

Gloucestershire

Herefordshire [16]

Hertfordshire[19]

Kent

see also the lost villages of the Romney Marsh for more detail

Leicestershire[20]

Lincolnshire

Middlesex

Norfolk

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

North Yorkshire

Northamptonshire[108][109]

Northumberland

Nottinghamshire[110]

Oxfordshire

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

Rutland

Shropshire

See Shropshire Deserted Villages and Lost Places for a comprehensive list of such places in Shropshire

Somerset

Suffolk

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Wiltshire

Scotland

Aberdeenshire

Berwickshire

Caithness

East Ayrshire

East Lothian

Fife

Highland

Lanarkshire

Moray

Na h-Eileanan Siar

Peeblesshire

Roxburghshire

Wales

Powys

Monmouthshire

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