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Stainsby The medieval village of Stainsby was deserted by 1757. Its remains can still be seen today as a series of humps and bumps in fields to the west of the A19, only a stone’s throw from Thornaby Town Centre and Teesside Retail Park. The majority of settlements occupied during the medieval period are still inhabited. Small medieval villages such as Acklam, Marton and Hemlington are now large suburbs of Middlesbrough. However a proportion of medieval sites were abandoned and their remains are often visible as mounds and ditches in pasture fields. Stainsby is one of a number of deserted or shrunken medieval settlements in the Teesside area. The remains of the village can be seen clearly on the ground today. The village of Stainsby is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The Domesday Book was a detailed survey of the kingdom by the first Norman King, William the Conqueror. The place name literally means Steinn’s Hamlet or Farm. Steinn is a Scandinavian personal name and the ending ‘by’ also suggests a Scandinavian settlement. This is a clue that Stainsby was around for at least several hundred years before the Norman invasion.
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