Scrafield is a deserted medieval village

Deserted medieval village

In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convention is to regard the site as deserted; if there are more...

 or DMV, located about 4 miles (6.4 km) south east of the town of Horncastle, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England. Scrafield was not listed in Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 of 1086, and it was first mentioned in documentary sources in 1183.

The church was dedicated to Saint Michael but fell into disrepair and by 1842 it had gone, although the churchyard was still used. The northern part of this was levelled in 1977, and only a single 18th century gravestone is visible today.