The historic hamlet of Bockhampton, located just southeast of Lambourn, appears on signposts and street signs. But there is one problem – it no longer exists. Almost all physical evidence of this once-thriving medieval community has vanished from the landscape. The reasons for this are political, social and environmental. Bockhampton is listed as ‘Bochentone’ in William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book of 1086, a record of all the towns, villages and individuals living in the kingdom of England. The hamlet has had many name iterations over the centuries, but its fate was sealed with the Parliamen…