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The Ancient Parish of WHARRAM PERCY
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"WHARRAM PERCY, a parish in the wapentake of Buckrose; 8 miles SSE. of Malton. The Rev. Richard Allen is the vicar of this parish, and the living is in the gift of Miss Isted and Miss Englefield, Pop. 44.""BURDALE, a farm house in the parish of Wharram Percy, and wapentake of Buckrose; 1½ miles SE. of Wharram Percy, 10 miles SE. of Malton. Population with Raisthorpe, 47."
"PLUCKHAM, in the parish of Wharram Percy, and wapentake of Buckrose; 4 miles S. of Wharram Percy, 8 miles NE. of Pocklington."
"RAISTHORPE, in the parish of Wharram Percy, and wapentake of Buckrose; 1½ miles S. of Wharram Percy, 8 miles SE. of Malton. Pop. with Burdale, 47"
"THIXENDALE, in the parish of Wharram Percy, and wapentake of Buckrose; 2¼ miles SSW. of Wharram Percy, 9 miles N. of Pocklington. Pop. 184.
John de Sezevaux, one of the Representatives for the city of York, 28th of Edward I. was of this place, and to whose name Drake, p. 35b, annexes the following note. De Sezevaux, or de sexdecem vallibus, is the town on the Wolds, now called Thixendale; corruptedly no doubt from sixteen dales, which the place is remarkable for."
"TOWTHORPE, 2 farm houses in the parish of Wharram Percy, and wapentake of Buckrose; 2¾ miles ESE. of Wharram Percy, 10 miles SE. of Malton. Pop. 61."
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Photographs of over 80 gravestones in Thixendale Churchyard with a surname index.
- Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- St. Martin's Church, Wharram Percy (note that this church was part of a now deserted and well "dug" mediaeval village).
- St. Martin's Church, Wharram Percy, view 2.
- St. Martin's Church, Wharram Percy, view 3.
- Internal view looking down nave towards the tower
- Internal view looking eastwards down the nave
- The refurbished ceiling
- St. Mary's Church, Thixendale (from the road).
- St. Mary's Church, Thixendale (rear view 1).
- St. Mary's Church, Thixendale (rear view 2).
- Internal view looking down the aisle
- The East Window
- The font
- Transcript of the entry for Wharram Percy in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Wharram Percy.
- The List of Incumbents in St. Mary's Church, Thixendale.
- The village of Thixendale has its own website which includes sections on History, People, Local information etc.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory of 1823, of the East Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1892. of the East Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1892 History and Directory of the East Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Wharram Percy to another place.
- In 1872, the townships of Thixendale and Raisthorpe and Burdale (in this parish) were formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish. See Thixendale Parish.
- Thixendale under the Sledmere Estate
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE858643 (Lat/Lon: 54.067503, -0.69044), Wharram Percy which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The War Memorial in the Churchyard at Thixendale.
- The World War I Roll of Honour in St. Mary's Church, Thixendale.
- This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
- The 1834 Electoral Roll for this parish