- enclosure
- emparking
- black death
- monastic depop.
- coastal erosion
- flooding
- military use
- open cast mining
- industrial decline
- other / unknown
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lost villages
Clowne

Name: Clowne
Reason for desertion: unknown
Period of desertion: unknown


Located East, South East of Welbeck Abbey. Name is preserved in ‘Clown Hill Plantation’, amongst whose trees, ‘stones’ were marked on the 6″ map of 1888 . Takes its name from the River Clun or Clumber now called the River Poulter.

Sources: http://www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk/dmv.htm

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Clowne

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