Talk:List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom

Template:Lost settlements in the United Kingdom
Why the new navbox? I have created the above navbox, which can be added at the end of any article about a lost settlement. Its title links back to this List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom article, to give further information. The navbox also purposely highlights those counties for which we need to add more lost settlements.

Please check links. I have checked that live links don't take you to disambiguation pages or obviously wrong pages, but some inaccurate live links may remain. I have not checked whether any red links could go live if e.g. I added a comma and the county (as in Caldecote, Hertfordshire). Please could you kindly check the links for those settlements that you're familiar with? Thank you.

Request: If you add a new lost settlement to the list in the article, it would be very helpful if you could please add it to the list in the navbox as well, and check its link. Thanks.--Storye book (talk) 22:41, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Note - a copy of the template was kept here as a result of this TFD.

Italics
What's the significance of the italics on some of the settlement names? It should either be explained, or the italics removed. Dave.Dunford (talk) 12:37, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Counties
The article appears to use "traditional" counties (for example the first three places listed in "Berkshire", Barcote, Beckett and Betterton, are all in modern Oxfordshire). I've noted this at the top - there's some justification, I suppose, for using the counties that the villages were in before they were abandoned, but see WP:UKCOUNTIES. Dave.Dunford (talk) 13:43, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes def some kind of hint to the erstwhile shires of any lost settlement. Gorleston, Knobersburgh/Burgh Castle, Thetford and a few bits more of what was once Suffolk are now sadly Norfolk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.210.155 (talk) 04:35, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

"Lost" or merely absorbed?"
I notice that there are as large number of settlements that weren't actually "lost", they still exist and have merely "disappeared" really as a consequence of nearby development. (Sometimes the greater town even retains the original name (e.g. Stevenage). Are these really lost settlements? What is the value of leaving these entries in-situ? Plingsby (talk) 06:04, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Seeing things samewise. Randomly clicked the link for listed 'lost' settlement of Babworth, lo and behold, taken to a modern online map baring...Babworth!

Furthermore, the unlikeliness in number of lost settlements betwixt Norfolk and Suffolk is somewhat untrustworthy methinks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.210.155 (talk) 04:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)


 * That's almost certainly down to someone entering a shed load for Norfolk. Fwiw I think I've either added or edited all but one of the Suffolk ones as I've come across them doing other stuff. It's just chance that I added the here at the same time as I was editing the existing settlements. It does sort of depend on definitions as well - so Willingham St Mary might be considered lost in many ways as the church and traditional village has largely gone. I might be about to start verifying the Norfolk ones so if I do I may see if I can find a list if Suffolk ones. Blue Square Thing (talk) 12:44, 25 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Added some for Suffolk with more possibilities to come. There seem to be less recorded in Suffolk for a number of reasons. Partly it's to do with how much more isolated Norfolk is, especially once you get up above Norwich and into Breckland. Partly it's also to do with the amount of work that's been put in in Norfolk researching and recording them. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:57, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * On the issue of what is a "lost" settlement, there may well be a current settlement with the same name but also a prior settlement which was close by and was abandoned - often a DMV site. The separate Norfolk article now has a large number of reference to support settlements, many of which might be considered to fall into this category. Some are totally, or almost totally, deserted anyway, others have a larger current population but there is clear evidence of another site which was deserted. Hope that makes it clearer. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:57, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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