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Local History - Contents

This webpage is a Contents Page for the Local History section of the website.

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OR you can view local history webpages sorted in a TIMELINE ORDER  here.

Stratford sub Castle

An introduction to the early settlement of the area

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Anglo-Saxon burials

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Placing the burh in Searobyrg

Alex Langlands

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Stratford sub Castle place name variations & origins

Kerry O'Connor

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Avon, River

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Bedrock

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Benchmarks in and near Stratford sub Castle

Kerry O'Connor

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Dean's Farm reservoir

Kerry O'Connor

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Land Holding (or tenureship) in 1748
Kerry O'Connor

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Land Inclosure 1800
Kerry O'Connor

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Land Sale 100 years ago
Kerry O'Connor

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Leper Hospital

Kerry O'Connor

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Magic Lantern 1890s - Mill Lane & Old Sarum

Kerry O'Connor 

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Map, First Edition Ordnance Survey map of Stratford sub Castle & the Woodford Valley 1817

Kerry O'Connor

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Maps - a Timeline

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The Portway

David James

 

Post Offices
Kerry O'Connor 

 

Road, A lost road to a lost abode

(The Drowner's cottage)

Kerry O'Connor

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Roman Road, The Portway
(Old Sarum Landscapes Project)

Kerry O'Connor

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Route of a Roman Road

Kerry O'Connor

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The Lost village of Stratford Dean

Kerry O'Connor

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Sale of Stratford Manor 1818

Kerry O'Connor

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Stratford sub Castle & the oldest road in Britain 

Kerry O'Connor

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Stratford's 'Slum Square'

Kerry O'Connor

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Streetlighting
Jane Court

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Streetnames, origins

Kerry O'Connor

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Strike of Agricuiltural Workers 1853

Kerry O'Connor

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Turnpikes & Milestones near Stratford sub Castle

Kerry O'Connor

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Underditch Hundred incl 1662 map

Kerry O'Connor 

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Water Meadows, Stratford's Historic Water Meadows

Jim Platt

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Water Supply, a history of the water supply to Stratford sub Castle
Kerry O'Connor

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WW2 Bunker

Kerry O'Connor

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WW2 Dragon's Teeth at St Lawrence Church

Kerry O'Connor

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WW2 Millers Close air-raid shelter

Kerry O'Connor

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WW2 Secret Spitfire Sites

Kerry O'Connor

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Stratford's Historic Buildings

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People with a connection to Stratford sub Castle

John Aubrey

Antiquarian & Travel Writer

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Thomas Becket

Archbishop / visitor to Old Sarum

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Edward Caswall

Stratford Clergyman & hymn writer

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William Cobbett

Travel Writer

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John Constable

Artist & painter

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Coggan Family 

a story of 100 years of living in Stratford

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John Henry Cook - his own account of  

Life at Mawarden Court in the 1920's & 1930's 
He was the son of the Rev William Henry Cook.

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Samuel Curwen

Travel Writer

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Daniel Defoe

Author & Travel Writer

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Walter & Edward D'Evreux

Earls of Sarum

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Eleanor of Aquitaine
A Queen of England, imprisoned at Old Sarum

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Celia Fiennes

Travel writer

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Sweyn Forkbeard

A future King of England

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Richard Hill MBE
International Rugby Player

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John Cattrell Hudson
Hudson's Field benefactor

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John of Salisbury

Secretary to Thomas Becket

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Mary King

Instigator of the Reading Room

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John Leland

Antiquarian & Travel Writer

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Captain William Mudge

Director General of Ordnance Survey 

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Frances Nisbet

The future Viscountess Nelson

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St Osmund

Second Bishop of the original Sarum cathedral  

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Samuel Pepys

Diary & Travel Writer

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The Pitt Family 

Church benefactors & family of a Prime Minister

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William the Conqueror

King of England

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William of Orange

King of England

We Will Remember them

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The Stratford sub Castle Nine
- named on the Wayside Cross
               War Memorial

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Commonweath War Graves

Other articles with a local connection

Aircraft Past & Present

Kerry O'Connor

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The Avenue, Little Durnford

Kerry O'Connor

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Camp Hill
Kerry O'Connor

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340 Devizes Road - route of a Roman road

Kerry O'Connor

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Druids Lodge - water tank

Kerry O'Connor

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The Court House, Lower Woodford

Kerry O'Connor

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Flax or Linseed?

Kerry O'Connor

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Old Sarum is mentioned in Walter Pope's 

'Ballad of Salisbury' published in 1713

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North Hill Down Barrows

Kerry O'Connor

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Many of the articles that appear in the History section of this website were written by members of the

Stratford sub Castle Local History Group.

 

Group contact details are here

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