by adminwww | May 14, 2017
The Forge There used to be a forge in the centre of the village until the mid 1950s. This was in the brick outbuilding belonging to Forge Cottage. The building was arranged such that horses were shod in the front part and the forge and anvil were located towards the...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
Transport We’ve gone back in time as far as records permit, but we’ve not found anything that predates 1840. The sources of this early information were Pigot’s and Kelly’s trade directories. In the nineteenth century there were carriers of goods that made weekly...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
Winter Fertility Customs The month of January witnessed a couple of interesting old fertility celebrations dating back many hundreds of years. These are Wassailing and Plough Monday. Wassailing The term wassail derives from the Old English “wes hal”, which means...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
The Napoleonic War and the Threat of an Invasion Defensive Plans The Napoleonic War between Britain and France lasted from 1803 to 1815. However, Britain was becoming wary of France following its revolution and by 1790 an invasion was considered a real possibility. A...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
An Extract from William Cobbett’s ‘Rural Rides’ William Cobbett was born in Farnham in 1763, the son of an innkeeper. He fled to America after being hounded for exposing corruption in the army. He returned to England in 1800 and became an investigative journalist, a...
