Monument record 2166 - Clopton

Well preserved shrunken Medieval village remains in and surrounding the present village, including house platforms, ridge and furrow and hollow ways.

{1} Settlement remains (TL 058806-077800; Fig. 39), in and around the present village, on both sides of the main street. All existing houses and gardens on the north side of the street have the remains of earlier, larger, crofts behind them, bounded by low banks and ditches. Where there are now no houses, the crofts extend up to the street and have building-platforms within them. To the south of the street, in premanent pasture, are other fragmentary remains, apparently former house sites. The abandonment of these buildings had certainly teken place by 1840 but the precise date is not known (NRO, Tithe Map).
In the field immediately north of the church is a large area of earthworks consisting of at least 10 ditched closes, some with building-platforms within them. These closes lie on the north side of a broad hollow-way which is on an earlier line of the existing road.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 29 (Series). SNN77379.

<2> 1981, Medieval Village Research Group (Vol.29), p. 42 (Annual Report). SNN13022.

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