Our History Society Projects
The range of activities have included
- archaeology
- field walking
- compiling field names
- collecting and taking photographs
- hedge dating
- war-time control towers survey
- recording of monumental inscriptions of the local graveyards
- transcribing parish registers of the area
- oral memories of over 200 local villagers
- collection of a library
- collecting newspaper cuttings
- obtaining and transcribing wills
- collection of family trees of well established area surnames
- world war 1 and 2 memories and items
- researching local school history and records
- encouraging and publishing local stories
Likely future projects
- obtaining and transcribing deeds.
- indexing of census and trade directories.
- photographic collection of mills, barns, post offices, post boxes, mile & boundary stones, fire insurance wall plaques etc., in our villages.
- house histories.