Possible Deserted Medieval Settlement at Baddesley

1 Deserted Medieval village in Rous’ list as ‘for the most imparked’. But it is still not destroyed, though the settlement is small.
2 Poor archaeology (C), period of desertion known, but documentary evidence inferior in quantity (1).
3 No traces of desertion were seen.
4 At the above grid reference there were traces of ridge and furrow and headlands, and also a number of more irregular earthworks which resemble those found on the site of deserted Medieval villages. No systematic survey has been made, but C Dyer recalls that these irregular earthworks continued alongside the modern lane. These earthworks have been destroyed by the construction of a car park. The buildings could have been outbuildings of Baddesley Clinton house, or part of ‘the elusive dispersed settlement pattern of Baddesley parish.’