Monument record MDO47407 - Cripton medieval settlement, Came Home Farm, Winterborne Came

A deserted medieval village situated on the northern terrace of the River Piddle surviving as a series of earthworks extending over an area of 8 hectares. Little Piddle is mentioned in the Domesday Survey and was divided into two manors, the northern manor known as Coombe Deveral in Piddlehinton and the southern manor in Puddletown. These two manors remained as distinct land units with separate open field systems in different parishes until 1885.

Hutchins says that Cripton was: "anciently a hill and manor now reduced to a small farmhouse". RCHM places the old village on or near Come Home Farm but no settlement remains have been found here. <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 373 (Monograph). SDO149.

<2> Good, R, 1979, Lost Villages of Dorset, 1979 (Monograph). SWX1569.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/096 RCHME Inventory: Dorset III (Central) (Unpublished document). SDO17384.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868403 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 3:29PM