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Menethorpe
Hob Uid: 909066
Location : North Yorkshire Ryedale Burythorpe
Grid Ref : SE7708067600
Summary : Medieval village mentioned in Domesday. Signs of desertion in the form of abandoned crofts and buildings and other features surviving as cropmarks and earthworks.
More information : SE 7690 6785. There were two rows of buildings still surviving in 1775 on Jeffery's map, and one still survived in 1851. The site was finally cleared to form a park around the hall. The existing earthworks mirror the buildings which existed in 1851. The village is mentioned as `Mennistorp' in the Domesday Book. (1-1a) The Medieval earthworks described by authority 1 were mapped from poor quality air photographs. To the south of the modern east- west road are about twelve conjoined enclosures on average 40m by 15m. These may be crofts. Within one of these crofts is a square enclosure, 10m by 10m, centred at SE 7679 6759. Some of the croft boundaries extend to become field boundaries, but are only visible as cropmarks. To the north of the road a number of perpendicular earthwork banks, extending from SE 7673 6774 to SE 7693 6771 indicate property boundaries some of which form enclosures. Within one of these at SE 7694 6769 is a rectangular building (11m by 5m). Another enclosure contains four incomplete rectangular enclosures which could be buildings (SE 7681 6770). Part of the village field system can be seen in the form of ridge and furrow (SE 7685 6780), lynchets (SE 7708 6760) and field boundaries (SE 7716 6764) all surviving as earthworks. A number of hollow ways extending from SE 7657 6774 to SE 7656 6791 appear in some places to cut the ridge and furrow and in others to respect it. Therefore, some may be Post Medieval. (Morph NoS HH.112.1.1-15) This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. (2)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Sandra Garside-Neville/21-OCT-1994/RCHME/NYCC:Howardian Hills Project
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Source Number : 1a
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Source details : Smith A H, 1970, The Place Names of the East Riding of Yorkshire and York, p 145
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : Damian Grady/28-JAN-1994/RCHME: Howardian Hills Project
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Deserted Settlement, Croft, Boundary, Lynchet, Ridge And Furrow, Enclosure, Hollow Way, Village, Field Boundary
Evidence : Earthwork, Cropmark

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Field Boundary, Hollow Way, Deserted Settlement
Evidence : Cropmark, Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (North Yorkshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 1761
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (North Yorkshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 1761.01
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External Cross Reference Source : MORPH2
External Cross Reference Number : HH.112.1
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 76 NE 43
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Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 1993-04-01
End Date : 1994-01-01

Historic England Research Records

Menethorpe