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There are only nine surviving wills for Eastnor people from the period 1621-1640.Four of them are nuncupative wills, oral statements of the decease

There are 13 surviving wills for Eastnor people in this period.

There are 14 surviving wills for Eastnor people, all men, between 1581 and 1600.

There are 11 surviving probate documents for the period 1561 - 1580, two for women and nine for men.

There are 12 probate records for Eastnor people during the first forty years of the 16th century.

There are probate records for eight Eastnor people in this period. For three of them the actual wills survive.

There are ten Eastnor probate records pre-1501 listed in  the Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts 1407-1541 and Abstracts of Wills 1541

Basingstoke Poor Law Union was established in May 1835, under the new Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.

A coin hoard found in 2006 is a striking reminder of the terrible damage the Civil War did to ordinary people's lives.

The village of Banwell in the Mendips is in an area rich in caves but the most famous is probably the Banwell bone cave discovered in 1824.

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