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. |