Treasures uncovered in Ryedale's lost village by Gazette reporters MILL SEARCH: Landscape investigator Al Oswald using GPS equipment in the newly-discovered monastic mill pond at Wharram Percy and, inset, the mill as it may have looked. RYEDALE'S famous lost village has given up another treasure for archaeologists. A long-lost water mill and farmstead at Wharram Percy, run by the "luckless" Cistercian monks of Meaux Abbey, came to light during a survey of the landscape around the wolds village, which is one of England's largest and best-preserved deserted medieval villages. English Heritage, working with the Wharram Research Project, combed through ancient...