Ogle deserted medieval village. Photo © Tim Gates.

Typical depopulation remains, consisting of rectangular crofts and building steadings at NZ 13807910, and to a lesser degree at NZ 14027890. Surveyed at 1/2500. (1)

(NZ 138791) Village (site). (2)

Deserted Medieval Village at Ogle. (3)

Condition unchanged. (4)

The manor of Ogle was a fee of the barony of Whalton. From the 12th to late 16th century it was held by the Ogle family. The manor then descended to the Cavendish family, and in 1632 was surveyed and planned by William Senior for the Earl of Newcastle (Notts RO K4/18). It comprised c.16 houses and a castle, and was divided into nine tenant farmholds. The next detailed estate plan found is of 1830 (NRO ZMI B12/XXVII/1). At that date the township contained seven farmholds, two steadings, nine cottages and a house. The remaining farmsteads had been dispersed to other parts of the township. The date of dispersal is unknown.
Substantial earthworks remain at the village site. It comprised two rows of tenements, aligned east-west along the sides of a wide village green. The capital messuage, Ogle Castle, stood in an enclosure at the east end of the green. At the west the green narrowed to form a driftway leading southwards through the fields to common pasture. The northern row of the village, c.12 crofts maximum, is bounded by a continuous perimeter bank on the north, beyond which is a substantial area of ridge and furrow. Some of the ridges are more prominent than others indicating disused enclosure boundaries. At the east end of this row stands Ogle Castle (NZ 17 NW 2).
Some of the houses in the present village stand on the southern row. They front on to the road which runs along the southern edge of the former green. Earthworks suggest that the southern row of the village also contained about 12 tenements in total. A continuous perimeter divides the crofts from ridge and furrow to the south. (5)

The positions of two electricity poles were hand excavated by C O'Brien on 28th January 1993 in preparation for works by Northern Electric to replace poles. The positions are at the east end of the village to the north of the road. The two settings made only slight intrusion into archaeological deposits in the tail end of an embankment and within a gap between two enclosures. No finds were recovered. (6)

Scheduled. (7)

An archaeological evaluation was carried out by The Archaeological Practice Ltd on the site of a proposed electricity pole within the scheduled area of Ogle deserted medieval village to the west of Owl Cottage, Ogle. The evaluation comprised a single trench located on a raised area on the edge of the earthworks associated with the medieval village. The evaluation concluded that the earthwork feature was the product of geological features and variable deposition of sub-soil due to glacial or post-glacial action. (8)

NZ 138 790. Ogle deserted village. Scheduled No ND/520. (9a)

The remains of the deserted medieval village of Ogle occupy c. 4ha of a field under permanent pasture to the N of the present village. They comprise a part of the street visible as a hollow way, 0.9m deep with, to the N of the street, four house platforms and a series of tofts. The house platforms, up to 0.5m high vary from 13m by 7m, the latter apparently sub-divided into four sections. Only one or two stones are visible. N and W of the tofts, bounded by banks up to 0.7m high, is well preserved broad rig cultivation. Immediately to the S of the modern village are further, somewhat amorphous earthworks which also appear to be medieval village earthworks from AP examination, with broad rig extending S from them. It seems likely therefore that much of the original village is buried under the present settlement. Surveyed on MSD. (9b)

General association with HER 10923. (9)