Britain's Lost Villages

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 18 Nov, 2010 1:10 pm

Bet we could add a few:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11765712

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 18 Nov, 2010 1:14 pm

Cardiarms wrote: Bet we could add a few:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11765712 Beat me to it by a tresspassers nose Cardi - or we could put them in touch with someone who lives in one

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Thu 18 Nov, 2010 4:31 pm

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 18 Nov, 2010 5:43 pm

Brandy wrote: Well that's taken the lid off it - famous at last

Dalehelms · Post by **Dalehelms** » Thu 18 Nov, 2010 6:06 pm

You've made my day, folks!

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 18 Nov, 2010 6:27 pm

Should we claim our local one to be Roman and name it Fevidium?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 19 Nov, 2010 9:17 am

Thats amazing! Well done that man!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Fri 19 Nov, 2010 1:01 pm

I Just thought id try and cheer you all up a little in the light of current anticsps/sorry for hijacking your thread cardi but i just couldnt resist it when i first saw that map

jim · Post by **jim** » Fri 19 Nov, 2010 1:38 pm

Btitain's most famous deserted village is Wharram Percy between Malton and Driffield. Forty seasons of excavation have only examined five per cent of the site.A good overview of the topic is "Deserted Villages", Rowley and Wood. It is part of a very interesting series of low priced short introductions on an extremely varied set of subjects published by Shire Books, obtainable over the internet. Remember the thread on overhead and vacuum cash carriers? They have a book devoted to that very subject. £6.99 from their websiteI have found books on amusement machines, quarrying, lead mining, mazes, the salt industry, old gramophones, nailmaking, and chainmaking, amongst a huge range of topics. The Shire site is well worth a look to learn the basics about many of the things you may have wondered about, but thought that the only available books would be too expensive and too heavy (in both senses of the word ) to buy, and that the Wikipedia entry was a little unsatisfying.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Sat 20 Nov, 2010 12:36 am

actually there is a deserted village at temple newsam. all that remains of a medieval village are the bases of foprmer houses.It is as you go out of the grounds past the gardeners cottages.I can't recall the name of it at present.The guided tours done by West Yorkshire Archaeologist Dave Wheldrake around the Temple Newsam estate always mention it.