Settlement Remains - Deserted Village "Rew"

Deserted Village : Further to the west of the present village there is Rew. This is now a very small hamlet consisting of Rew Manor and a number of surrounding isolated houses. 

Rew appears as La Rewe in 1283 and Rewe later in 1528. The name derives from the Old english raew - a row of houses or trees. 

Ronald Good in his Deserted Villages p 23 notes that an earlier essay by P W Lock notes the Rew was also known as Orchard. *

The RCHM notes that the settlement remains are immediately south west of Rew Manor and consists of banked and scarped enclosures covering 5 acres for almost a quarter of a mile along the north bank of the South Winterbourne. (explaining the name Rew as Row). The settlement appears to occupy an area approximately 55 metres wide rising on a level some 9 metres above the stream. At the west end a block of large closes are suggested as being part of a Manor house complex.