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Marlston Based near the village of Bucklebury in West Berkshire lies the tiny village of Marlston. Although its not mentioned specifically in the Doomesday book, there are three buildings shown around the church in the area now occupied by Marlston House (itself apparently rebuilt in the late nineteenth century and now a school) there were two buildings north of the road, lost by the time of the 1808 Ordnance Survey drawing.
Shottesbrooke Although no evidence has been identified on the ground or in aerial photographs for a deserted settlement at Shottesbrooke, some of the documentary evidence suggests a modest medieval community of some form probably once existed here.