Upper Lemington
Upper Lemington was a village, now abandoned and vanished, in Gloucestershire, in the fields immediately south of Lower Lemington, to the north-east of Moreton-in-Marsh. The site is in the east of the county, close to the border of Warwickshire. The village was abandoned in the Middle Ages, though the date is unknown.
No houses remain of the mediæval village, but there are extensive earthworks between Lower Lemington and Lemington Manor. These earthworks are traditionally called 'Upper Lemington', and run north to the church at Lower Lemington. Further earthworks are found to the north of the church. A hollow way runs southwards from Lower Lemington Manor.
The Domesday Book of 1086 contains two entries for Lemington (Lementone), as belonging to Tewkesbury Abbey.[1] Seven households are recorded here in 1563. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there has been a steady population recorded at Lower Lemington, and it has been suggested that the two were one village, distinguished just as being two different manor. If this proposition were the case then Lemington may be a ‘shrunken settlement’, rather than Upper Lemington a ‘deserted village’.
Outside links
- Location map: 52°0’20"N, 1°40’53"W
- Upper Lemington on 'Beresford's Lost Villages' (University of Hull)
References
- ↑ Open Domesday: [Lower Lemington]
