Dröstorps ödeby

Dröstorp's deserted village is located far out on the alvar, adjacent to the large Dröstorpsmossen bog. The area is not part of the extremely barren alvar land, but there is a more or less thick moraine cover, together with wet areas, which have been cultivated. The village was built in the late 17th or early 18th century. It was then abandoned in the late 19th century and the village was left to decay. Two of the village's single cottages have been moved and are preserved in the neighboring villages of Smedsgärde and Skarpa Alby. The last person to live in the village at the end of the 19th century was "Boman på Dröstorp", a former convict who, according to rumor, was an "elf thief", that is, a cattle thief. Today, the foundations of houses, fencing, stone walls and a continuous field with parcel boundaries remain. Just southwest of the village site there are prehistoric graves in the form of stone circles and mounds. They indicate that people also lived here during parts of the Iron Age. It is likely that the economy was based on livestock farming even then.