This page contains useful links to research resources useful to the study of village origins, as well as on-going and completed research projects that have, or are continuing to explore this subject. We would be delighted to hear from anyone who is currently engaged in research of this kind. Use the contact SPASE page to send us a link to your site and we will add it to this list. Likewise, if you know of other useful webpages, please do let us know.

RESEARCH RESOURCES

1. English Place-Names

2. Langscape

3. Anglo-Saxon Charters

4. British History On-line

5. The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)

6. A vision of Britain through time

PROJECTS

Project have been arranged by geographical region where applicable. Research with a national remit is provided in the first section.

BRITAIN

1. Temples and Cult Sites: Long-Term Religious Traditions in Britain

2. Beyond the Burghal Hidage: Anglo-Saxon Civil Defence in the Viking Age

3. HEFA CORS Excavation Data and Reports

SCOTLAND

1. Exploring Scotland's Rural Heritage

THE NORTH-EAST

1. County Durham: On Monastery in Two Places: Wearmouth and Jarrow in their Landscape Context

An on-going project run jointly through the Universities of Newcastle and Durham.

2. County Durham: Settlement and Waste in the Palatinate of Durham

3. County Durham: Medieval Charters and the Landscape: Between Durham and the Sea 1100-1500

4. Yorkshire: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Yorkshire

THE MIDLANDS

1. Buckinghamshire/Northamptonshire: The Whittlewood Project

A completed project that ran out of the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester between 2000 and 2005. The results of this five-year project have been published in various places, including an interactive publication in Internet Archaeology. The main publication, however, is:

R. Jones and M. Page, Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends (Windgather Press: Macclesfield, 2006)

2. Oxfordshire: The Wallingford Burh to Borough Research Project

3. Lincolnshire: West Halton Archaeological Field School

An on-going project run by the University of Sheffield.

4. Worcestershire: Deansway Archaeological Project, Worcester

EAST ANGLIA

1. Norfolk: Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project

2. Currently-Occupied Rural Settlements excavation report

THE SOUTH-EAST

1. East Sussex: Bishopstone

2. Kent: Landscapes of the Anglo-Saxon Conversion: Excavations at Lyminge

THE SOUTH

1. Hampshire: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Extensive Urban Survey

THE SOUTH-WEST

1. Somerset: Great Exmoor Project

2. Somerset: North Somerset Levels Project

3. Somerset: Puxton