Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village

Today I discovered the Yorkshire Wolds!
I live on the edge of the Howardian Hills and the North York Moors and so why would I want to travel south to see the Wolds?  Well I did today and annoyed I've not been there before.  I put the bike in the car and parked at a place called Wharram Percy.  The cycling around the Wolds was really pleasant and the scenery rolling.  The Wolds is the most northern chalk outcrop in England and the landscape predominantly consists of fairly steep sided dales that have no rivers running through them.  It is thought they were created by huge rivers in the last ice age.
There are quite a number of deserted medieval villages in the region.  Although not on a par with the 'clearances' in Scotland the change in farming from agriculture to sheep farming in the 16th century saw a dramatic reduction in the size of the workforce.  Villages just died and the inhabitants went looking for work elsewhere.  Wharram Percy is one such village that has been studied by archeologists on an annual basis from the early 1970s to 1990.  The church in the picture was built in the 18th century, but many medieval skeletons were discovered.  In some cases it was discovered that some bones had been smashed to stop the dead from rising!