NHER 2730 (Monument record) - Site of Sturston Deserted Settlement

Site of village of Sturston, which was a vill in Domesday and in Nomina Villorum 1316.
Depopulated by owners of Hall mid 16th century. (information from R. R. Clarke NCM).
No trace now visible on ground.
A. Rogerson (NAU), January 1976.

19 taxpayers 1332. Edward Jermyn. Lord of Manor, accused in 1597 of pulling down all the houses.
E. Rose (NAU).

Information from NAR Records: extra information bibliography on Deserted Settlement in file.
Compiled by M. D. Leah (NLA), 18 January 1991.

January 2002. Woodland Earthwork Rapid Identification Survey.
Management Unit L2, Site 125:
Area extended and NGR amended from TL 8751 9495.
An extensive area of mostly slight earthworks, comprising ditched enclosures and linear features, including a likely continuation of the road further west. they are mostly in grassland, although a small group is in Sturston Carr, abutting the flood plain. Here a small linear pond, still mapped, has a large near-rectangular depression to its north, around 75m x 25m, with northern and eastern banks enclosing the area. To the northwest of the pond, across an existing mapped field boundary ditch, a small raised platform, 16m x 12m with a higher northwest corner up to 1m high, is approached across rather waterlogged ground by a causeway to its southwest corner. Further west is a U-shaped scarp with an open west end. These features do not readily look like medieval settlement which some of the grassland enclosures represent. A 1781 map shows the woodland features in a field called Dog Kennel Close.
A former common boundary is noted east of the hall (NHER 2779).
The grassland features have not been closely inspected, but their layout is sketch plotted from air photographs.
See report (S1) for further details.
B. Cushion (NLA), February 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2015.