More information : (Area SP 152242) The village of Eyford had a population
of twenty-one in 1086, but appears to have been largely
depopulated between 1300 and 1327. It probably lay by the ford
from which it took its name, and a church was in existence on
the east bank of the brook in 1273, when the first of a series
of nine recorded rectors was presented. The rectory was vacant
in 1462 and the church was later allowed to decay. In 1545 the
churchyard close marked the eastern limit of the Eyford sheep
pastures, and in 1760 an orchard on the east bank, upstream of
the ford, was called Church Orchard. (1)
There are no visible remains of this DMV on the ground. (2)
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