Medieval Vicarage, Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire
Reconstuction drawing by Peter Dunn of the post-Medieval vicarage. By 1517 this vicarage and a single tenant farm were all that remained on the earlier medieval village. The vicarage remained because the church at Wharram was still used by people from the village of Thixendale, two miles away. The village of Wharram Percy was intensively excavated and researched by Professor M Beresford and Dr J Hurst from 1952-92. They found the remains of 30 crofts and tofts (houses with a strip of land) with associated outbuildings. They are laid out along three main trackways. Thirty houses were mentioned in 1368, 16 in 1458 and the occupants of the last 4 households were evicted before 1517 to make way for sheep pasture. Read detailed archaeological description.
