Abstract

Burton Lazars, Leicestershire: a planned tnedievallandscape? A. E. Brown The village of Burton Lazars lies some two kilometres a whole in the early Middle Ages. With the help of south-east of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, on the relatively full documentation, the conclusions the A606 road to Oakham (Fig. 1). The second part derived from the earthwork survey are taken of its name marks it out as the site of an important further to suggest that they indicate a stage in the medieval hospital belonging to the Order of St expansion of the arable land of the village in the Lazarus, an order of knights set up probably in the twelfth century, but that before this the village of early twelfth century in the Holy Land to defend Burton and the fields that went with it had been Christianity and to protect pilgrims to the Holy laid out as part of an integrated act of landscape Places in the manner of the Hospitallers and planning, traces of which can be found in Domesday Templars, but with a particular concern to help Book. lepers. The initial purpose of this article is to discuss briefly the earthwork remains of this hospital, THE