NT 883434 (1,2) Deserted village, at Twizell. (1)

The enclosure seems to have taken place between the Census of 1820 and the Ordnance Survey of 1861. Probably an emparking enclosure. (2)

No certain remains of a deserted medieval village are visible either from ground or aerial photograph inspection (RAF 1945). The enclosed area has been extensively mutilated by surface quarrying leaving ground disturbance which White has probably interpreted as building remains. The only positive indication of emparking appears to be the re-routing of the modern road, which has left vague traces of its original course. See annotated sketch plan. (3)

Documentary references: 1560, 1580, 1660, 1821. The medieval village probably lay at NT 884435 where there are earthworks(?) of juxtaposed enclosures on either side of a probable roadway. (4)

Infra-red line scan reveals various features which may be associated with the remains of the deserted village of Twizel. (5)(6)

Possible post-medieval gardens remains and other unidentified disturbances are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs centred at NT8848 4350. Low indistinct earthwork banks or scarp slopes in a regular rectilinear arrangement are visible to the north of Twizel Castle at NT8827 4347. These may be the garden remains cited by Authority 1.
To the east, on the slopes between the castle and Twizel Smithy there are a series of indistinct cropmarks. Small irregular furlongs broad ridge and furrow can be distinguished amongst these cropmarks but little else. The northern extent of these disturbances coincides with the location of a field boundary that was extant in 1945 but has since been removed. (7)(9a)

A Level 1 analytical field survey of the area was carried out in April 2010 by English Heritage's Archaeological Survey and Investigation team. (8)

Scheduled. (9b)