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| Name: | Shrunken Medieval Village, Upper Berrington, Tenbury |
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| HER Reference: | WSM11255 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 574 674 |
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| Map Sheet: | SO56NE |
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| Parish: | Tenbury, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire |
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Monument Types
- DESERTED SETTLEMENT (MEDIEVAL - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SHRUNKEN VILLAGE (MEDIEVAL - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Full description
Noted in List of suspect shrunken and deserted village sites in Worcestershire. [1][2][3]
Berrington - SO 575674 - is a suspected medieval village, according to Rowley. The earliest form of the name "Beritune" of the Domesday Survey, signifies "Bera's farm" but Stenton has shown that "tun" properly meaning farm must have the wider sense of village or settlement of free peasants. (National Record of the Historic Environment Sources: List of suspect DMVs 1969 (T Rowley), EPNS 1 pt 1 1969 42 (FM Stenton), EPNS 4 1927 83 (Mawer Stenton & FTS Houghto) ). [4]
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: 1990. Index. NAR. |
| <2*> | Bibliographic reference: Dyer C. 1971. Digital Transcription of 'List of suspected DMVs or SMVs'. Medieval Village Research Group. |
| <3*> | Bibliographic reference: Mawer A and Stenton F. 1927. The Place Names of Worcestershire. English Place-Name Society. |
| <4*> | Internet Site: Historic England. 2019. NRHE Record UID 110788 Berrington. |
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