Hanging Grimston medieval settlement

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The monument includes buried and earthwork remains of the medieval village of Hanging Grimston, together with the surviving area of its open field system visible as ridge and furrow earthworks. It is located to the south and west of Mount Pleasant Farm. Originally known as Grimston, the `Hanging' prefix of the settlement's name first occurred in 1300; the settlement was a township of Kirby Underdale. The Domesday Book of 1087 listed two manors for the settlement. The first was held by Odo the Crossbowman, William the Conqueror's chief military engineer, and included arable land for four and a half plough teams and eight acres of meadow. The second manor included the same amount of arable land and was held by the king who let it to Osweard and Rothmundr. By 1093 William Rufus confirmed the granting of both his and Odo's manors to St Mary's Benedictine Abbey in York which is thought to have held the township until the abbey was dissolved in 1539. In 1381, 79 people were listed as being over 14 and thus liable for the Poll Tax. Enclosure of the medieval openfields was reported in 1517 and by 1563 all of the township was in the ownership of Lord Dacre. A Chancery petition in 1619 noted that there was just a small area of arable left, indicating that the settlement was effectively deserted by this time.

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