NHER 11758 (Monument record) - Didlington deserted medieval village

The earthwork and cropmark banks and ditches relating to Didlington possible medieval settlement remains and further features identified from the Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) survey, are now recorded under NHER 63055.

Fields west of parish church, formerly parkland.
Cropmarks of Deserted Medieval Village, showing clear house sites divided by roads, running approximately north to south.
Checked by E. Rose (NAU) 1 November 1976.

This village was mentioned in (S1) and in (S2). It had 34 taxpayers in 1334.
(S3) records only three or four farmhouses.

April 1980.
Eastern part of cropmark site. Found on surface of ploughed field..
Scatter of Roman coarse pottery.
Seen by A. Gregory (NAU) 18 April 1980.
A. Gregory (NAU) 21 April 1980.

See report in file for 4821 by [1] which gives full documentary references to the village showing its decline in the 17th century due to the buying up of land by the lord of the manor.

May 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthwork and cropmark banks and ditches relating to Didlington possible medieval settlement remains and further features identified from the Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) survey, are now recorded under NHER 63055.
J.Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 13 May 2019.