Found this place by browsing my Outdoors GPS OS Maps app. Its a fab app – all your maps in one place with gps so you can see exactly where you are and you can build your own routes for walking or cycling or………..? I plan most of my walks using it, as you can check out points of interest, work out how many hills you are going to have to go up and down, and their gradient! One of the best things is the GPS, which I found to be pretty accurate, as knowing where you are on the map is not always so easy. You can use it offline too, which is a great plus. It gets some rather bad reviews on the Google Play store but Ive not had any problems. You have to pay for offline use – think its £19. Another one which gets very good reviews and does lots of extra stuff is View Ranger. I use Komoot for cycling, although map My Ride is good too, but they don’t have so much info on them.
Anyway, on to Wharram Percy. All the info about it is on boards, so click on the photos to read them.
Its amazing to walk where people lived in the middle ages and before. Below you can see how the village would have looked.
The the landowners evicted the villages so that they could use the land for sheep farming. Unbelievable!!!! Imagine what that must have been like.
Above you have what was called the improvement farm built 18thC. Click on the info board on the first photo to see info.
Above are a few images of the church first built in 10thC . The info board shows the various phases of building. It was still used by local villages even when Wharram was deserted.
Next we have the churchyard. The gravestone still standing are all from 18thC but 700 medieval skeleton have been found, which have revealed some very interesting evidence of how the villagers lived. Click the photos to read.
Next up is the mill pond.
Imprints are left in the ground of medieval Long Houses and Farmsteads and a Manor House.
I found this place fascinating and very atmospheric. There’s Wharram Abbey just down the road too.