In this field, to the southwest of Greatford in #Lincolnshire, or at least nearby, once stood the village of Banthorpe. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having stood in the hundred of Ness and the county of Lincolnshire. It had a recorded population of 13.5 households in 1086 (NB: 13.5 households is an estimate, since multiple places are mentioned in the same entry), and is listed under 4 owners in #domesdaybook. Today the village has vanished completely. The date it vanished is unclear, but it had certainly gone by about 1450. While the reasons for this are not known, other villages in Lincolnshire that were abandoned at about the same time fell victim to sheep. In the wake of the massive death toll of the Black Death the wages of agricultural workers went up, making arable farming unprofitable for landlords. At the same time more and more jobs were being created in towns and cities as industrialisation began to take a grip. The upshot was that peasants wanted to move to towns at the same time as landowners wanted the peasants off their land so that they could run sheep over what had once been fields of crops – and harvest the profitable wool for export to mainland Europe. But the name of the village lives on in the shape of Banthorpe Lodge, off Greatford Road. Banthorpe Lodge is a seventeenth century farmhouse, which was raised and altered in the late eighteenth century, and altered again the nineteenth century. It is constructed of limestone rubble and has a Collyweston slate roof. It has an L-shaped plan and two storeys. #archaeology (at Stamford, Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfV2osejcJu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=