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Malton

The undead of Wharram Percy….! 😱

Jun 10, 2023

buildings, religion

burials, churches, Great Plague, lost villages, Malton, maps, mutilation, North Yorkshire, Ordnance Survey, Wharram Percy, zombies

Our landscape is strewn with abandoned medieval villages, which are usually marked on Ordnance Survey maps. Their fate is often linked to the decimation caused by the Black Death, but there is one that’s slightly different in that it certainly doesn’t only apply to deaths caused by the plague. Wharram Percy was struck by the…
How many English pubs are named after monarchs….?

Feb 10, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, heraldry, humour

blue boar, Bury, Gloucester, Henry VII, Henry VIII, JD Wetherspoon, John Earl of Oxford, Leicester, Lord High Constable, Malton, Middleham, monarchs, pubs, Richard II, Richard III, Scarborough, Shrewsbury, Victoria, white boar, white hart

Well, obviously a lot of our pubs bear the names of kings and queens, with Queen Victoria heading the list above. I’m surprised to find Kings George III, George IV and William IV galloping up behind her, while all the rest are far more thinly spread. Why are these four monarchs, who all reigned…