On 27 September 1955, James Wharram set sail from Falmouth in a 23½ft flat-bottomed double canoe (now called a catamaran) that he had built himself at a cost of £200, with no engine, and none of the ...

The abandoned Yorkshire village of Wharram Percy has been around for more than 2,000 years and is now in the care of Historic England - here is its history. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...

Irish polar adventurer and boatbuilder Jarlath Cunnane has paid tribute to the pioneering skills of fellow sailor and multihull designer James Wharram, who died earlier this month at the age of 93.

This 'beautiful' deserted medieval village in the Yorkshire Wolds is probably Europe’s best-known and the largest in Britain ...

The table above is the complete Wharram Ramadan Calendar 2025. Here you can see the Sehri timing and iftar timing in Wharram from the first to the last Ramadan fasting day. The Islamic and Gregorian ...

Joe Flatman is Head of Listing Programmes at Historic England and the former County Archaeologist of Surrey. You can follow him on Twitter @joeflatman For this month’s contribution to the ‘great ...

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