Emscote Deserted Medieval Settlement
Description of this historic site
The site of the deserted settlement of Emscote which dates to the Medieval period. Documentary evidence from 1730 states that it was depopulated at that time and only the manor house remained. It was located 600m south of Brookhurst Primary School.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Emscote was not the same as the present suburb of the same name. It is in Rous and Dugdale as depopulated. It stood near the Avon at the above grid reference.
2 There is nothing left apart from the manor house, the rest having been depopulated.
4 The village was depopulated by enclosure in the 15th century.
5 The site is built over.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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