The farming year on Exmoor required seasonal movement of animals to make maximum use of grass growth during the summer months and to provide the li
There are many reasons why farmsteads become abandoned.
Between 1834 and 1894 local government at parish level was gradually reformed. The changes were piecemeal and conservative in approach, so that the
The earliest scheme for a modern, locomotive operated railway in the Derbyshire coalfield, proposed in 1832, was for a line running down the Erewas
The 1851 census can help us to identify parishes inhabited by first-generation immigrants.
Codford, one of its most prominent citizens, James Raxworthy were at the centre of the Captain Swing riots in Wiltshire.
During the Victorian period, many parish churches were rebuilt or ‘restored’ to look like an idealised version of their medieval selves.
Codford St Mary’s former school, began in 1875 (date on porch) and was extended 1889-91 (date beneath bell).
Wadham Locke, owner of Ashton Gifford House, built Ashton Gifford school at his own expense in 1844.
The George Inn, first recorded in 1541, had become the stopping place for the Rocket stagecoach before 1800, and was described in 1787 as a stone a
