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The site is now in the care of [[English Heritage]]. There is a small car park from where a footpath of about {{convert|220|yd|m|0}} leads to the site. The typical mediæval layout of sunken roads and raised rectangular tofts and crofts is clearly seen in the humps and hollows of the field.
The site is now in the care of [[English Heritage]]. There is a small car park from where a footpath of about 220 yards leads to the site. The typical mediæval layout of sunken roads and raised rectangular tofts and crofts is clearly seen in the humps and hollows of the field.


==Outside links==
==Outside links==

Revision as of 22:03, 24 April 2015

Overview of Gainsthorpe
File:Gainsthorpe DMV.jpg
Welcome notice, showing Gainsthorpe from the air

Gainsthorpe is a deserted mediæval village site in a field which is part of the present Gainsthorpe Farm in Lincolnshire.[1] The site is in the parish of Hibaldstow, on a minor road west of the A15 road, south of Hibaldstow and five miles southwest of Brigg.

The site is now in the care of English Heritage. There is a small car park from where a footpath of about 220 yards leads to the site. The typical mediæval layout of sunken roads and raised rectangular tofts and crofts is clearly seen in the humps and hollows of the field.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Gainsthorpe)

References

  • Beresford, Maurice (1983). Lost villages of England. pp. 945, 98, 265, 335, 363.