- enclosure
- emparking
- black death
- monastic depop.
- coastal erosion
- flooding
- military use
- open cast mining
- industrial decline
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Moorhouse
Name: Moorhouse
Reason for desertion: unknown
Period of desertion: unknown
In Laxton Parish. A chapel, erected 1861, separated from a few farmhouses and a lumpy field suggesting settlement earthworks. Perhaps a shrunken settlement.
Sources: http://www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk/dmv.htm
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