This report, which incorporates a geophysical and topographical survey, seeks to understand the settlement contraction and abandonment that occurred during the mid-to-late 16th in the Midlands. In particular, they investigate the site at Crow Close, and contextualise the site into the wider trends in the countryside. They assert that the "likely conclusion from an analysis of the historical data is that Crow Close was the nucleus of the Porter family’s estate and the site of their hall/mansion and possibly a few tenants’ cottages oveseveral centuries. It seems to date back at least to 1586 and probably to medieval times. The house was abandoned either at the general enclosure of c.1680-90 or perhaps more likely following the Sherbrooke inheritance after 1754. The earthworks may therefore represent the foundations of their mansion – possibly of medieval or Tudor origin – outbuildings, and cottages of medieval Georgian date.