History
The village has a reference in the Domesday Book, where it is recorded that it had a population of 14. The village is also mentioned by name in the Nomina Villarum of both 1316 and 1327. Then it is recorded that there were ten tenants in the manor. By 1428 records show that there were only ten inhabitants left in the village. In the year 1514 what remained of the village was enclosed by Robert Malory and nine of the ten dwellings left in the village were demolished, the land given over to the rearing of sheep for the growing woolen trade. Glendon Hall and Home Farm are the only buildings remaining today. There are no traces left of the village as most of the land around the hall has been landscaped, although there is a sign of earthworks in the form of a long deeply-hollowed channel, running east from the hall, that was once the main street through the village. The village’s story was featured in the first episode of the 2006 series of Time Team, which featured efforts to find the parish church.
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