The UK's ghost villages that vanished from the face of the earth for a horrid reason

An atrocious illness ravaged areas of England centuries agone (Image: Getty/Google)

The UK's agrarian scenery bears galore signs of its past. Many peoples person trodden its soil, which could archer galore stories.

The medieval period was 1 of societal upheaval, and determination is simply a database of villages, erstwhile portion of section landscapes crossed the country, that did not past 1 peculiarly seismic event.

The Black Death arrived successful England successful 1348, and is thought to person killed betwixt 2 and 3 cardinal radical successful England.

At the time, this was betwixt 1 3rd and fractional of the country's population.

Symptoms included swellings connected the body, buboes, and patients emitted a putrid stench.

The plague struck England aggregate times successful the medieval and aboriginal modern periods (Image: Getty)

Sufferers besides coughed up blood.

Folk were told to termination their town's cats and dogs to halt the dispersed oregon effort retired an array of expected cures, specified arsenic potions of assorted ingredients.

The outbreak devastated communities, and immoderate of them were truthful depopulated that they were yet abandoned.

These are thought to see places similar Hale successful Northamptonshire, Nash successful Shropshire, Dode successful Kent, and Wharram Percy successful North Yorkshire.

Althorp is different imaginable example.

The colonisation of Canons Ashby profoundly declined, and the Black Death whitethorn person hastened the diminution of the medieval colony of Church Charwelton.

Dode successful Kent is known arsenic the 'lost village' (Image: Google)

Local fable tells that the colony of Wolfhampcote was wiped retired by the Black Death arsenic radical fled determination from London. But there's nary grounds to enactment this. 

After the Black Death abated, the nonaccomplishment of a large galore of the peasant colonisation ensured that their services were much valuable. Land was besides much plentiful.

Higher payments were demanded, and landowners' profits were affected.

The ensuing socio-economic tensions contributed towards, to immoderate extent, the Peasant's Revolt successful 1381. Wat Tyler led rebels against the monarch, King Richard II.

Also impacted were trading, commercialized and fiscal networks successful villages, towns and cities.