Burton Dassett Southend, Warwickshire: A Medieval Market Village
Nicholas Palmer, "Burton Dassett Southend, Warwickshire: A Medieval Market Village "
English | ISBN: 1032430028 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 49 MB + 88 MB
English | ISBN: 1032430028 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 49 MB + 88 MB
Southend, one of five medieval settlements in Burton Dassett parish, Warwickshire, was the site of a market promoted by the manorial lord Bartholomew de Sudeley, with a charter being obtained in 1267. The settlement prospered, becoming known as Chipping Dassett, and approached urban status, but then declined throughout the 15th century. It was subjected to depopulation in 1497. The site survived as earthworks in pasture until construction of the M40 motorway necessitated the archaeological programme described here. The only building to survive was the 13th-century chapel of St James, reduced, along with an adjacent post-medieval priest’s house, to a cow-shed.
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