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Wharram Percy is a deserted medieval village and former civil parish near Wharram-le-Street, [1] now in the parish of Wharram, on the western edge of the chalk Wolds of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Wharram-le-Street and is signposted from the Beverley to Malton road ( B1248 ).
Wharram Percy. Wharram is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.It lies on the Yorkshire Wolds, 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Malton.The principal settlement is the village of Wharram-le-Street, and the parish also includes the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy and the deserted medieval villages (now hamlets) of Raisthorpe [1] and Burdale, [2] some 3 miles (5 km) south of Wharram ...
Perhaps the best-known deserted medieval village in England is at Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire, because of the extensive archaeological excavations conducted there between its discovery in 1948 and 1990. Its ruined church and its former fishpond are still visible. [1]
About 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village is the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy. Wharram railway station on the Malton and Driffield Railway served the village from 1853 to 1950. [5] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Raisthorpe and Burdale and Wharram Percy to form Wharram. [6] In 1931 the parish had a ...
He is best known for his excavations at the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, [citation needed] which he excavated for 40 years, from 1950 to 1990 together with the medieval historian Professor Maurice Beresford. Wharram was notable for some of the earliest excavations of medieval peasant houses, two manor houses, and ...
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Wharram railway station was opened by the Malton and Driffield Railway in May 1853, serving the village of Wharram-le-Street in North Yorkshire, England, although the area was in the East Riding of Yorkshire at the time. [8] [9] The station was also near the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy and adjacent to Wharram chalk quarry. [10]