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Castle Howard
www.castlehoward.co.uk
Official website of Castle Howard, one of Britain's most famous stately homes and still the residence of the Howard family. Clear, extensive and well-illustrated, the website includes a good history of the building, although there is little about the village and villagers who were brushed aside to make way for it.

Wharram Percy: The Lost Medieval Village
http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/begin.htm
This website tells the story of a deserted Yorkshire village, which was the subject of archaeological digs every summer for 40 years. It was once thought that medieval villages were 'deserted' due to the effects of the Black Death in 1349. Research at Wharram Percy (and a few other villages), however, has shown that there are more than 3,000 such villages in England and that most of them were depopulated as a result of economic forces in the 15th century. The Wharram Project, which began in 1950, has shown that many of these sites were inhabited for centuries before the middle ages. The evidence gathered at Wharram Percy has added immensely to our knowledge of English medieval peasant life.

Lost village sites of Nottinghamshire
www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk/dmv.htm
Based upon the pioneering work by Maurice Beresford published in The Lost Villages of England, this listing (by grid reference) of lost, abandoned or displaced settlements gives an indication of just how many can be found in a single county. There are many other websites that focus on other areas or individual sites.

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