More information : TF 098795 (centred). DMV of Fulnetby lay principally E of Fulnetby
Hall in fields named Hall Garths. Earthworks surviving at least
until 1953 were subsequently totally destroyed without record. AP
transcription (a), debris concentrations in fieldwalking in 1977 and
changes in direction of the main E-W through road confirm that the
village was based on an E-W street to the N of the present road and
was of a simple two-row morphology. The road was probably realigned
to by-pass the 16th-century house and gardens. Pottery from the main
village area N of the road ran into the 16th century and no later
except for a concentration on the roadside 60m E of the Rand turn, at
TF 09987956, marking property continuing into the 18th century. On
the S of the road was a scatter of pottery dating into the 19th
century and one dwelling existed in 1842.(b) Though Fulnetby does
not appear separately in medieval tax returns between DB and the
mid 16th century, in 1563 there were still 15 houses. A sharp
drop to 6 in 1705-23 marks its desertion in the later 16th or
17th centuries - earlier rather than later to judge from the
pottery and from enclosure reported in 1607.(c) Fulnetby had a
parochial chapel subordinate to Rand.(d) (1)
The Medieval or Post Medieval settlement of Fulnetby, described by
authority 1, was visible as earthworks in early photographs, but
levelled and visible as cropmarks in later photographs. Ditched
enclosures, interpreted as crofts, on average 35m wide, are centred
at TF 0986 7957. To the north at TF 0985 7933 are fragments of
boundary ditches probably part of more crofts or fields.
The 16th century house (Fulnetby Old Hall) and its formal garden are
recorded in TF 07 NE 2.
(Morph No. LI.451.1.1-2)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. |