2 Earthworks of enclosures and hollow ways indicate an area of shrunken settlement.
3 A settlement is first recorded as one of 24 vills granted to Earl Leofric to found a ...
Earthwork remains of a Medieval shrunken village at Priors Hardwick. Priors Hardwick is first recorded as one of 24 vills given to Earl Leofric to found the monastery at Coventry, the grant was confirmed by Edward the Confessor in 1024.