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Romans to Tudors
The Villages That Vanished
England's 2,222 deserted medieval villages against Domesday Book.
This is an interactive data study by Dr Tristan Hotham, built from open data. The map runs in your browser: explore it, search for places and switch layers. The write-up explains the method and what the data shows, and the data and code are open for anyone to reuse.
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