More information : (Centred SK 970281) (2) Westby is mentioned in Domesday.
Air photographs show traces of earthworks and suggest a much
reduced hamlet. (1-2)
Area under plough; No trace of earthworks. (3)
The earthworks described by authorities 1-2 were mapped from poor
quality air photographs as part of the Medieval shrunken village of
Westby. The following features were seen as earthworks:- three
ditch-defined enclosures, approximately 50m wide (centred at SK 9698
2827). Within one of these enclosures is a possible building
platform, approximately 40m long (centred at SK 9701 2826). To the
east of the enclosures are four rectangular depressions, 8m to 20m
in length, possibly representing former building plots (located at
SK 9705 2825, SK 9704 2827, SK 9703 2831, SK 9708 2818).
To the south of the main enclosures is a hollow way, approximately
170m long, (centred at SK 9698 2820), and a large ditch-defined
enclosure, possibly a field (centred at SK 9704 2809). Also recorded
as part of the village were two crewyards, between 10m and 15m wide,
centred at SK 9702 2816 and SK 9720 2837. At the north eastern edge
of the present village lie two blocks of ridge and furrow, 100m
long, centred at SK 9715 2841.
(Morph No. LI.798.3.1 - 3.9)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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