This list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom includes deserted medieval villages (DMVs), shrunken villages, abandoned villages and other settlements known to have been lost, depopulated or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England. Grid references are given, where known.
England
Note that in many cases English settlements are listed under the relevant historical county, rather than the modern administrative unit.
Bedfordshire
Stratton, near Biggleswade
Sheep Lane, between Woburn and Leighton Buzzard
Ruxox, near Ampthill
Kinwick, believed to be near Sandy
Elvedon, believed to be near Pertenhall
Berkshire
Barcote, near Littleworth, (manor house survives) (now in Oxfordshire) Beckett, near Shrivenham, (manor house survives) (now in Oxfordshire) Betterton, near Lockinge, (manor house survives) (now in Oxfordshire) Bockhampton, near Lambourn, (manor house survives) Calcote, near Hungerford (near, (exact location unknown) Carswell, near Littleworth, (now in Oxfordshire) Clapcot, near Brightwell, (manor house survives) Cruchfield, near Bray, (manor house survives) East Compton, near Compton, (church survives) Draycott, Longworth, (now in Oxfordshire) Eaton Hastings, (church survives) (now in Oxfordshire) Endloss Ditton, near Luton Fulscot, near South Moreton, (now in Oxfordshire) Henwick, near Thatcham, (manor house survives) Hill End, near Wytham, (now in Oxfordshire) Hodcot, near West Ilsley, Holt, near Kintbury, (manor house survives) Langley, near Hampstead Norreys, (manor house survives) Inglewood, near Kintbury, (manor house survives) Maidencourt, near East Garston, Marlston, near Bucklebury, (manor house survives) Newton, near Buckland, (manor house extant) (now in Oxfordshire) Odstone, near Ashbury, (now in Oxfordshire) Purley Parva, near Purley, (manor house extant) Seacourt, near Wytham, (good earthworks: road pattern discernible) (now in Oxfordshire) Shalford, near Brimpton, (manor house extant) Sheffield, near Burghfield, East Shefford, (manor house and church extant) Shottesbrooke, (manor house and church extant) Southcote, near Denchworth, (manor house extant) (now in Oxfordshire) Stroud, near Cumnor, (now in Oxfordshire) Thrupp, near Radley, (now in Oxfordshire) Tubney, near Appleton, (manor house extant) (now in Oxfordshire) Whatcombe, near Fawley, Whitley, near Cumnor, (exact location unknown) (now in Oxfordshire) Woolley, near Chaddleworth, (manor house extant) Wyld Court, near Hampstead Norreys,
Buckinghamshire
From Beresford's Lost Villages except Old Wolverton. Ackhampstead, near Frieth, - no visible remains at the site Addingrove, near Oakley, Doddershall, near Kingswood Ekeney, near Emberton (Borough of Milton Keynes) Fleet Marston, west of Aylesbury Old Wolverton (Milton Keynes)
Cambridgeshire
Includes former villages whose sites were in Huntingdonshire until the 1974 county boundary changes. Botolph Bridge, near Orton Longueville Whitwell, near Barton Burghley, possibly under Burghley House Clopton, Cambridgeshire, near Croydon Cratendune, near Ely Houghton, Cambridgeshire (medieval village) Howes Little Thetford near Little Thetford Sawtry Judith, near Sawtry (community based around lost abbey) Stonea Camp, deserted Iron Age hill fort in hamlet of Stonea Washingley, near Folksworth Weald and Wintringham, both near Eynesbury Hardwicke, St Neots
Cheshire
Tatton
Cumbria
Mardale
Snittlegarth
Derbyshire
Agden Side, near Agden Reservoir
Alkmonton medieval settlement, between Uttoxeter and Derby
Ashopton, submerged under Ladybower reservoir
Cottons, near Normanton, Derby
Derwent, submerged under Ladybower reservoir
Hungry Bentley, between Uttoxeter and Derby
Phoside, near Glossop. Toxall, near Macclesfield
Devon
Gawton – A port on the river Tamar abandoned in the early 20th century. Grimspound - a late Bronze Age settlement on Dartmoor Hallsands - Village and beach. Hundatorra, near Hound Tor (DMV. Now in the care of English Heritage ) Hutholes, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Dartmoor. Lacoma - a deserted medieval village on Exmoor. New Quay (Devon) – A port on the river Tamar abandoned in the early 20th century. Morwellham Quay – A port upstream from New Quay that was partially abandoned after the closure of most of the local mines in the early 20th century, now an open-air museum. Sutreworde, mentioned in the Domesday book, but abandoned in favour of nearby Lustleigh