Centred NU 03161561. A corner of a pasture field north of Fawdon shows traces of depopulation: fragmentary banks divide the area into enclosures and one at least of the fragmentary foundations in the area has the appearance of a steading of a building.
There is a local tradition that Fawdon was once a township - but no significant field names appear to have survived. The reason for and date of depopulation were not ascertained.
Discovered during field investigation. (1)

Almost the whole of the area indicated is now covered by a fir plantation, and the only visible trace of depopulation is one ill-defined building platform just to the north of the wood. (2)

Nothing visible. (3)

Basically as described by Authority 2. The banks and scarps around the platform are of an earth and undressed stone content and are neither extensive nor coherent. Rig and furrow is evident in the land to the north and north-east. (4)

Fawdon was a member of the barony of Alnwick, came into the hands of the Percys in 1381. Clarkson's survey records five husbandlands as well as the demesne tenant whose holding included five husbandlands containing 220 acres and the water mill. A small scale map of the township in the mid-18th century shows the farm and distinguishes the infield farm from the waste. Earthworks of the former village are preserved at NU 031155 to the west and at
NU 034155 to the east. (5)

NU 031 155. A small part of what may originally have been more extensive village earthworks has been preserved in a paddock W of the modern farm of Fawdon. The principal feature is a roughly rectangular enclosure which covers an area 20m NW-SE by 12m transversely, and is surrounded by a turf-covered bank now spread up to 6m in places and with a maximum height of 0.4m. A break in the scarp in the NW may be a vestigial entranceway. Part of this bank extends into the field to the NW where it has been destroyed by modern cultivation, but could originally have linked this site to further elements of the village. This enclosure could represent the disturbed remains of a croft, its associated building now lost. To the SW of this croft is an area of broad ridge-and-furrow cultivation [NU 0315/7-8] and to its NE is a disturbed area of irregular scarps. Running along the SE side of the modern paddock is a prominent scarp which may be the remains of a hollow way leading towards the centre of the modern farm, the site which must have been the focus of the village, and which forms the focus for much of the ridge-and-furrow cultivation and medieval field boundaries [NU 0315/2-9].
Elements of a Medieval/post Medieval deserted settlement are visible as earthworks on air photographs. These are the possible remains of two buildings. They are situated at NU 0311 1549 and NU 0339 1556 and are only visible as a few narrow banks implying walls and areas of disturbed ground. The former exhibits a more recognisable rectangular depression measuring 20m north-west/south-east by 11m transversely. On the north-east side there is a continuation of the depression potentially indicating a doorway. The only remains of walling are situated around the western corner. The latter remains are less recognisable as buildings, but do consist of at least two banks forming right-angles (possible wall corners?). (6) (7a)