Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Wharram Percy, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Wharram Percy in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Raisthorpe and Birdall township Bartholomew
RAISTHORPE and BIRDALL a township Imperial
Thixendale township Bartholomew
THIXENDALE a township Imperial
Towthorpe township Bartholomew
TOWTHORPE a township Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Wharram Percy like this:

Wharram Percy, par. and township, East-Riding Yorkshire, near Wharram sta.- par., 9093 ac., pop. 461; township, 1459 ac., pop. 57.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Wharram Percy by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Wharram le Street 0 2
Burdale 0 2
Raisthorpe 0 2
Buckrose 0 2
Birdsall 1 2
North Grimston 0 3
Duggleby 0 2
Towthorpe 0 2
Thixendale 0 2
Fimber 0 2
Fridaythorpe 0 2
Kirby Grindalythe 0 2
Langton 0 2
Settrington 0 2
Kennythorpe 0 2
Kirby Underdale 0 2
Burythorpe 0 2
Leavening 0 2
Wetwang 0 2
Sledmere 0 3