![]() Mere traces of a former village can be found here, crop circles and stones. There is also Dalton Old Hall near Kendal. Very, very little is known of either but the plague almost certainly caused them to be abandoned. In Lancashire the hamlet of Fairhurst, near Parbold was lost and Easington village in the Forest of Bowland was also abandoned. ![]() The most famous and well known abandoned village of this era is Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire that was extensively excavated during the 20th Century where archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a church and a pond. This all contributed to a movement away from the isolated hamlets and farm dwellings. It was one of the many vaccaries that populated the Rossendale Forest.īoth the village and the forest were a part of the Honour of Clitheroe. Gambleside started life in the late high Medieval period when it was first mentioned as a vaccary, a type of cow farm, in 1242. These are the remnants of Lancashire's abandoned village: Gambleside, a settlement that was fully abandoned by its residents during the 1890s. The ragged countryside is full of dry stone walls and foliage but amongst the dense green land, a serious of old markers are seen poking from the landscape. What once stood in north Rossendale, and on the shores of the Clow Bridge Reservoir is now almost totally lost to the elements. Some 344 acres of the valley were flooded in total, giving us the lush green valley today, with little sign that the thriving Stocks-in-Bowland ever existed. St James’ Church was dismantled and re-erected half a mile away with the graveyard exhumed and the inhabitants reburied. The project led to the abandonment of a number of farms and the hamlet of Stocks itself when the valley was flooded by the reservoir. The Inn, called The New Inn became a central focus to Stock, it was a rarity to have a settlement anywhere in England that was first serviced by a pub before anyone thought of building a church. It was in this century that the scattered farms grew into more of a settlement, with an inn, a post office, a blacksmith and a general store added to the valley. Then it compromised of little more than two farmsteads and would not grow until the explosion of commerce and European wide trade in the 1600s. Stocks began its life in the high Medieval period when it was just a small hamlet in the north of Slaidburn, first recorded in 1246. ![]() ![]() The beautiful reservoir that is today home to fly fishing clubs, mountain bikers and weekend ramblers, is all that is left of Stock-in-Bowland, the village that was abandoned during the 1920s and 1930s as the Fylde Water Board began construction of a dam across the upper Hodder. Now the depression in the luscious greenery is flooded with water, making up the Stocks Reservoir at the head of the Hodder Valley. The Dalehead Valley in the Forest of Bowland was once homing to a thriving community and village. These are Lancahire lost villages and settlement, what remains of them and how they were eroded from today's landscape. There are several ancient villages and settlements that have been lost to the ages, whether through flooding for reservoirs, the plague, or simply because they were abandoned. Settlements come and go, countries, empires, villages, cities and town are all eventually consumed by time and decay.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |