Armthorpe village appears, from the evidence of the OS first edition mapping to have been a typical linear medieval village surrounded on three sides by common arable fields and made up of loosely planned farmsteads along one main street. Few buildings predating the 19th century are listed by Magilton (1977, 5-6) although the church of St Mary is early Norman in date. This area is shown as enclosed ground on OS mapping until 1982 when the present probable social housing was first depicted. Possibly an area of contracted settlement. No legibility of earlier landscape.