Articles and Updates - The Wychwoods Local History Society

This area of our website contains articles, comments and news from members and visitors.

We welcome articles, stories of local interest, recollections, comments or any other feedback. Please contact us with any submissions, which can be in Word or PDF format, or simple email.

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2021

October 14th | The Development of Primitive Methodism: Our October 2021 Evening Talk (Society Events)
October 11th | Book Review: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney – A Parish History (Book Reviews)
October 1st | Milton’s Unusual Wooden Carving Revisited (Editorial)
September 29th | The 1870s: A Decade of Decisions – From the Society Journal No 3 (Journal Extracts)
September 13th | The Small Tin Church – Little Ben Rings Back (Editorial)
September 1st | The Rector Returns – A Well-Travelled Painting (Editorial)
August 13th | The Cospatrick Tragedy – From the Society Journal No. 14 (Journal Extracts)
August 13th | More Memories of Shipton -The Village Shops and Roundsmen | From the Society Journal No. 10 (Editorial, Journal Extracts, Personal Memories)
August 12th | Early Days at Shipton | From the Society Journal No.7 (Editorial, Journal Extracts, Personal Memories)
August 11th | Observations on Ridge and Furrow in Honeydale Field | From the Society Journal No. 7 (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
August 10th | What’s in a Name? | From the Society Journal No.15 (Journal Extracts)
July 27th | The 19th Century Letters of Thomas and Hannah Groves | From the Society Journal No. 2 (Journal Extracts)
July 15th | The Burford – Shipton Omnibus: A Note from the Past (Journal Extracts)
July 12th | Bones under the Pew (Journal Extracts)
July 3rd | A Wychwoods Farming Year 1854–55 | From the Archive (Journal Extracts)
June 20th | A Short History of Milton-under-Wychwood High Street (Editorial, Houses)
June 5th | Exhibition at Churchill Heritage Centre (Editorial)
May 22nd | Glove Making in West Oxfordshire: Our May 2021 Evening Talk (Society Events)
May 7th | Exhibition of Photography: Milton Library (Editorial, Society Events)
May 1st | A Portrait of an Old Lyneham Gentleman (Guest Articles, Personal Memories)
April 30th | The Society’s 25th Anniversary Remembered (Editorial)
April 16th | A Hero of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry: April 2021 Evening Talk (Society Events)
April 10th | Annunciation Relief Sculptures, Shipton Church (Journal Extracts)
April 9th | Local Casualties of a Forgotten War in Iraq (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
March 19th | Recent Evening Talk: “The Journey From Afghanistan” (Editorial, Society Events)
March 6th | “Keeping a Watch” – Memories of Shipton One Hundred Years Ago (Personal Memories)
February 25th | A Wartime Wedding at Prebendal House (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
February 19th | The Wilts & Berks Canal – The Latest Society Talk (Editorial, Society Events)
February 9th | Maria Matthews: A Gifted Life in Context (Editorial)
February 2nd | A Curious Find in Shipton: 1985 (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 27th | Discovery in the Snow (Guest Articles)
January 23rd | Our Third Online Talk: Ellen Hinde and the Prebendal (Society Events)
January 18th | The Shipton Prebend: An Early History (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 18th | Prebendal House, Shipton: Archaeological Review (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 14th | Early 1960s Milton School Memories (Personal Memories)
January 10th | Australia Bound: From Ascott to the “Promised Land” (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 6th | Jessie Jones (1885-1945): Teacher with a Legacy (Editorial)
January 3rd | 19th Century Emigration from Oxfordshire: A Book Review (Book Reviews)

2020

November 20th | Our Second Online Meeting (Society Events)
November 11th | Ivan Wright & Family – Shipton Under Wychwood (Personal Memories)
October 20th | Using Technology: Our First Online Meeting (Society Events)
October 17th | Some Sculptural Curiosities in Milton-under-Wychwood (Editorial)
October 12th | Apprentice Boys: Charity Records Revisited (Journal Extracts)
September 4th | Wychwoods Victorian Evening 1990 (Editorial)
July 5th | Ascott Village Charity Booklet: Village History and Things to Know (Guest Articles)
June 22nd | Shipton Memories: Jim Hudson (Personal Memories)
June 22nd | Churchill Remembrances (Guest Articles)
May 9th | A Shipton Lad – Not just a Naughty Boy (Personal Memories)
April 10th | The Shipton Tillyards (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 1st | Life in Old Milton (Houses, Journal Extracts, Personal Memories)
January 14th | Cotham Cottage, Milton (Houses, Journal Extracts)

2019

December 20th | Combe Mill Recollections (Editorial, Personal Memories)
December 19th | Ascott-under-Wychwood – a Short History (Editorial, Guest Articles)
October 14th | Articles and Updates (Editorial)

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