The deserted settlement of Wharton is recorded in the Domesday Book, but was always a small settlement, judging by the numbers of early 14th century taxpayers. It is separately recorded in the 14th and 15th centuries and only subsumed under returns for Blyton from the 16th century. In 1616 the township was totally in the hands of Sir John Wray and Mr Raundes, who divided it between them, and it was all enclosed. A 'fayre new howse' had been built there, probably by Wray, whose children were baptised and buried there. Early RAF vertical aerial photographs and St Joseph aerial photographs of 1956 show some earthworks on the north side of the farm road and east of the hall, outlined by ridge and furrow to the north but not clearly forming a pattern of village properties. These have been ploughed, probably in the mid 1960s. Fieldwalking has supposedly produced some medieval and post-medieval pottery. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}{7}{8} The most westerly part of the ridge and furrow field system is not apparent on a D. Riley aerial photograph. {9}{10} The ridge and furrow appears to have been ploughed out and is not visible on the 2012 Google mapping. {11}