Dexthorpe medieval village is believed to have been located east of Dexthorpe House farmhouse, occupying land to the south and east of Willow Holt and likely continuing further before its desertion. {1}{2} The village is represented by the surviving earthwork remains of a building, crofts, trackways and ponds which have been identified by the National Mapping Programme from aerial photographs. {3}{4} A two-celled church is thought to have been located in the village (MLI127356), which was subject to an earthwork survey in 2007 by the Spirit of Sutterby Project {5}. Two references to the medieval village of Dexthorpe are made in Domesday in 1086 AD. The first (13,5) takes Dexthorpe together with Sutterby and Dalby, with an approximation of 1800 acres of taxable land when combined. The second (29,27) concerns Dexthorpe exclusively. In this entry Dexthorpe is described as having been valued at 10s prior to 1066, and 8s at the time of survey. {6} In 1334 “Dexthorpe In Dably” is recorded in a tax list suggesting it was a junior partner in a pair of villages taxed together rather than as separate villages. A priest was last instituted at Dexthorpe in 1451, and by 1577 some degree of depopulation has been observed with the assets associated with the village including two acres of pasture not recorded in 1086. Conversion to pasture is often associated with depopulation. The church and parsonage had been retained to at least 1577. {7} It is likely that further remains associated with the village have been truncated and damaged by later activity including ploughing based on the extent of the surviving earthworks visible in LIDAR {8}.