Which system of market towns in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, first recorded in the Domesday Book, saw population decline and village abandonment in the late medieval period?

• A Drowned villages of Rutland
• B Lost Villages of the Wolds ✓
• C Cleared Highlands townships
• D Deserted medieval villages of Norfolk

Dozens of settlements across the Wolds were depopulated by enclosure, plague, and economic changes from the fourteenth century; their earthworks remain visible in the landscape.