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Uttlesford

Land, Agriculture and Industry in North-west Essex
Author: Geoffrey Ball
Publisher: SWHS
Publications ISBN:    978-1-873669-02-0
Price:   £9.50 inc postage
Enquiries: jacqueline.cooper@virgin.net


Clavering

Clavering Langley: the first thousand years
Eileen M. Ludgate
Price: £5.00 From: jacqueline.cooper@virgin.net
Clavering Langley: 1783-1983
Eileen M. Ludgate
Price: £5.00 From: jacqueline.cooper@virgin.net
History Walks in Clavering
Author: Jacqueline Cooper Price £6.95 ISBN 1 873669 11 9 From: jacqueline.cooper@virgin.net


Duddenhoe End

Duddenhoe End Book 1: Aspects of an English Village (2007) - currently out of print
Duddenhoe End Book 2: The Life & Times of an English Village (2008) - £12 + postage
Duddehoe End Book 3: Farming through the Centuries (2008) - £9 + postage

All by Olive Harvey, fully illustrated and wonderfully evocative of rural life.
For purchase details, contact -      chairman@recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk


Elsenham

Elsenham Village of a Thousand Years (now on CD in pdf format)

Slide Show CDs of old Elsenham, vols 1 and 2 All by Ray Franklin. Each one costs £5, or any two for £8, or all three for £10. Cheque payable to R.Franklin to: The Bungalow, Stansted Road, Elsenham, CM22 6LL



Essex Journal

The Essex Journal is published twice yearly and is under the management of an Editorial Board consisting of representatives of the Essex Archaeological and Historical Congress, the Friends of Historic Essex, the Essex Record Office (on behalf of the Essex County Council) and the Hon. Editor, Neil Wiffen MA.  The Chairman is Mr Adrian Corder-Birch M.I.C.M., F.Inst.L.Ex, one of the  Congress representatives, the Hon Secretary is Dr. Maureen Scollan. Essex Journal welcomes new subscribers, the annual subscription being a modest £10 inclusive of postage.  Financial correspondence should be sent to the Hon Treasurer, Mrs Geraldine Wilden, 11 Miligans Close, Galleywood, Chelmsford CM2 8QD




Great Chesterford

IR1 STACEY GEORGE DYER A Chronicle of the Village He Loved A personal narrative adapted from odd writings about Great Chesterford, of a man born in 1878 £1.50








IR2 OUR VILLAGES Their Beginnings and Now

Abstracts from Written Oral History Records

Outline History of the Ickleton Chesterfords Area”

Mary Symonds Reminiscences” of her visits to her grandparents in Great Chesterford as a child before the 2nd World War

The Chesterfords Newmarket Railway 11846-1958 £1.50
IR3 The Life of a Young Farmworker in the 1920s the Fate of many Chesterford Farmers

Joe Wakefields recollections of his early life in farming £ 2.00

IR4 Disaster at the Park Little Chesterford 30th May 1944

A collation of the information collected by Janet Clark about the explosions at the ammunitions dump at Little Chesterford Park £3.00
IR5 A Village on Fire Little Chesterford 7 April 1914

A perspective of Little Chesterford before and during the great fire in 1914 and the buildings and people affected by Ken Kilford £2.00
GREAT CHESTERFORD BURIALS

IR6 Memorial Inscriptions in Church and Churchyard

 transcriptions compiled by James Marshall  £2.50

GREAT CHESTERFORD BURIALS

IR7 From the Registers 1586-2000


transcriptions compiled by James Marshall  £3.50


IR8 LITTLE CHESTERFORD IN 1801 as revealed in the Inclosure Awards

Ken Kilford presents the Awards, the results of the Inclosures, and extracts information about the life of the times from the documents £1.50
IR9 LOCAL HEROES The Men on the Gt Chesterford War Memorial

The lives and deaths of the men of the village who died in the First World War, with brief details of those who died in the 2nd World War

by Peter Oldham £4.50
IR10 A VILLAGE SCHOOL Great Chesterford 1849-1999
By Elizabeth Marshall £2.00




IR11 GREAT CHESTERFORD IN 1801 as revealed in the Inclosure Awards

Ken Kilford does for Gt Chesterford what he did for Lt Chesterford in IR8 £3.50
IR12 A VILLAGE SHOP 1920-1945 Good Times and Bad

Janet Clark's record of Holman Sons, Gt Chesterford, run by her parents £1.40
IR13 GREAT CHESTERFORD PARK

Ken Kilford presents what is known about Chesterfords lost mansion” and its par £1.50
GREAT CHESTERFORD BAPTISMS

IR14 Part One - From the Registers 1586-1812 £3.00
GREAT CHESTERFORD BAPTISMS

IR15 Part Three From the Registers 1923-2005 £3.00
IR16 COMMERCE IN GREAT CHESTERFORD 1900-1950

Written by Ian Deatker £1.50
THE BEGINNINGS OF CHESTERFORD from Prehistory to History

A Bulletin published by the Gt Chesterford Archaeology Group (now part of the Chesterford Local History Archaeology Society) in March 1980 £2.00
GREAT CHESTERFORD A Brief History

Looks at Great Chesterford over two millennia £2.00


A PEEP INTO THE LIFE OF VICTORIAN GREAT CHESTERFORD

Compiled by Mary Miller from newspapers and other publications ofthe time £ 2.50  

Hatfield Broad Oak & Hatfield Regis

HATFIELD REGIS PUBLICATIONS

A Tale of a Lonely Parish by Francis Marion Crawford.

History of the Hatfield Broad Oak Priory.

WW1 & WW2 Memorial books for the Hatfield Heath Churches

History of the two Churches.

Booklet on Gibson’s farmhouse and the Hurdle End Cottage.

A History of Hatfield Heath.

 

These reprints are available priced £4.00 plus £1.00 postage from:

 

The Treasurer, HRLH Society:

email: mwybrew@fsmail.net


Henham

Memories of Henham - this book contains villagers treasured pictures intermingled with personal stories of life in Henham dating from the 1890s.

Written byCarol Eaton and Frances Roberts. Price is £ 10 plus p p. To purchase click here


Littlebury

Parish of Littlebury Millennium Album
Edited by Lizzie Sanders
Price £13.99
Publisher: Parish of Littlebury Millennium Society
ISBN 0-9543910-0-4
Littlebury; a Parish History
Edited by Lizzie Sanders & Gillian Williamson
Price £15.00
Publisher: Parish of Littlebury Millennium Society
ISBN 0-9543910-1-2
A booklet of poems by William Winstanley published by Alison Barnes.  £1.50 in aid of Quendon church. If you would like one:-

Cheques made to to Quendon and Rickling PCC to
The Rev'd Chris Bishop,
The Vicarage,
24 Mallows Green Rd.,
Manuden,
CM23 1DG



Manuden

Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower and the Gunpowder Plot [lived in Manuden]
Author: Fiona Bengtsen
Price £8.99 Publisher: Trafford (Canada) www.trafford.com/05-0439
ISBN 1-41205541-5 From author: fiona.bengtsen@btinternet.com

The Manor of Battles Hall, Manuden: price £3.00
From Manuden History Society: fiona.bengtsen@btinternet.com
Manuden during the Second World War:

Price £2.00
Hassobury@ Price 

Newport

A Village in Time: the history of Newport, Essex

Authors: Bernard Nurse, Joy Pugh and Imogen Mollet
Editor: Angela Archer
Publisher: Newport News (1995)
ISBN 0 9514601 1 0
Walks Around Newport, Essex

Editor: Judith Bernard Nurse
Publisher: Newport News (1989)
ISBN 0 9514601 0 2

on sale at Newport Post Office and Newport Village Stores
Newport, A History Trail
Publisher: Newport News (new edition 2006)

On sale at Newport Village Stores Price 50p
Newport News

Published twice a year, contact Newport News, The Old Maltings, Newport CB11 3PQ price £2.50

Radwinter

A Deuce of an Uproar
The letters of Eden Nesfield, architect, to the Revd. J F W Bullock, Rector of Radwinter on the Restoration of Radwinter Church completed in 1888.

£15.00 Hardback incl pp.
Publisher: Friends of Radwinter Church
ISBN 0 9513746 0 5
Contact: michael.southgate@btinternet.com
The Description of England
This classic contemporary account of Tudor social life by one of Radwinters most famous Rectors, was originally written as part of an introduction to Holinsheds Chronicles.

£13.60 plus £2.00 pp.
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN 0-486-28275-9
Contact: michael.southgate@btinternet.com
The Remarkable Radwinter Reredos
Fully colour illustrated booklet on this early sixteenth century Brussels altarpiece, described as the finest piece of woodcarving in Essex.

£4.00 incl. pp. Contact: michael.southgate@btinternet.com
Publisher: Friends of Radwinter Church.
William Harrison of Radwinter and Wimbish
The life and times of William Harrison, author of Description of England, published with Holinshed's Chronicles in 1577.

£1.50 incl. pp.
Publisher: Friends of Radwinter Church.
Contact: michael.southgate@btinternet.com
Radwinters ‘Ideal Village Centre
A rare and pristine example of both the social and visual aims of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

£2.00 incl. pp.
Publisher: Radwinter Society.
Contact: michael.southgate@btinternet.com
The Millar Organ at Radwinter Church
The history of the Radwinter Church organ, recently featured as one of Britains great organs, its specification, its builders and its restoration

£2.00 incl pp.
Publisher: Friends of Radwinter Church.
Contact: michael.southgate@btinternet.com


Saffron Walden


Saffron Walden Historical Journal

Editor: Jacqueline Cooper
Publisher: Saffron Walden Historical Society
Published twice a year, price £2.50 (postal copy price £ 3.20)
Contact: jacqueline.cooper@virgin.net
The Well-ordered Town: a story of Saffron Walden 1792-1862

Author: Jacqueline Cooper
Self-published
Price £7.95
ISBN 1 873669 06 2
From: jacqueline.cooper@virgin.net
Discover Walden: Saffron Walden Countryside History Wildlife Walks

Authors: Jacqueline Peter Cooper
Price £3.95
ISBN 1 873669 01 1
From: jacqueline.cooper@virgin.net


The Sampfords

SAMPFORDS SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS

The Sampfords Society has published a large number of booklets and papers, which can be photocopied t cost. To obtain any of those listed below, contact MichelleCNixon@aol.com who will supply details. Payment needs to be made in the form of stamps accompanied by an sae or by cheque addressed to The Sampfords Society if over £5 in value. Copies of some documents can be emailed on request.

CHURCH GUIDES - £1.00 each

1. The Baptist Church, Great Sampford (1996)
2. St Mary the Virgin, Little Sampford (1992)
3. St Michael the Archangel, Great Sampford (1992)



OCCASIONAL PAPERS (if price not given, they are out of print)

  1.   Idyllic Sampford Spinney (1987) 20p
2. St Michael’s Church Kneelers (1993)
3. The Sampfords Society 1984-1994 (1994) 20p
4. Operation Kingfisher (1994) 20p
5. Wartime Recollections (1996)
6. Return to Little Sampford (1997) 20p
7. Ron Page’s Memoirs 1925-1945 (1998)
8. 2000 Calendar (2000) £2.50
9. A Record of the Millennium Year in the Sampfords (2000)
10. Heritage Sampford (2002)


VILLAGE NOTES (all 20p each)

1. The Kingfisher (1985)
2. The Bardfield Oxlip (1985)
3. The Maypole (1985)
4. Roman Amphora from Sampford, Essex (1985)
5. 200 Years of Cricket in the Sampfords (1985)
6. The Domesday Sampfords (1986)
7. The Lime Tree (1986)
8. Meanders on the Pant (1986)
9. Pargetting (1987)
10. Great and Little Sampford – the Placename (1988)
11. Sparepenny Lane – the Placename (1989)
12. Great and Little Sampford – the Parish Registers (1990)
13. The Bull, Great Sampford (1991)
14. The Red Lion, Great Sampford (1992)
15. Arthur Young 1742-1820 and the Sampfords (1993)
16. John Ireland in the Sampfords (1993)
17. Church Graffiti (1994)
18. Cholera in Great Sampford 1886 (1994)
19. Further Notes on Sampford Pubs (1995)
20. Nineteenth century Straw Plaiting (1996)
21. Mistress Dorothy & the Noble Early – Lt Sampford Hall (1997)
22. As Safe as Howses – Air Crash in Village 1972 (1998)
23. Post-War Housing Development (1999)
24. The Parish Cage at Great Sampford (2000)
25. Guy Fawkes Night (2001)
26. ‘Laid to Rest’ (2002)
27. The Pant Bridges at Sampford (2003)
28. Millijon, Febe & Old Sticks – Honeysuckle Cottage People (2003)
29. Crab Apple Jam (Visit 1924-1927) (2004)

VILLAGE GUIDES (50 each)

1. Enjoying Great Sampford (1998)
2. Enjoying Little Sampford & the Sampfords Farmlands (1989)

VILLAGE HISTORY

The Story of the Sampfords by Gerald Curtis (1981) - £3.00

A comprehensively researched history of the Sampfords parishes. Excellent source of information for genealogists and those interested in the history of properties in the parishes. Hardback 280 pages.

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS (all 50p each)

1. Radwinter Hill Farm Accounts (1990)
2. Archives and Source Material for Sampfords History (1992)
3. Abstracts of Sampford Wills (in process)
4. Notes on The Stow, Great Sampford (1989)
5. Friars Farm, Little Sampford
6. Notes on the Site of St Michael’s Church (1998)
7. Documents found in Horrells Fireplace (1988)
8. Notes on River Green House (The Manor House) (1989)
9. Notes on Alan Raswthorne (1998)
10. The Sampfords as seen through Parish Council Minutes 1952-1973
11. The Sampfords Millennium Message (2000)
12. The Essex Kingfisher Report (2000)

SOCIETY NOTES

Published several times each year – bulletins of news, reviews of Society activities, obituaries, notes on natural history etc. Free to members at time of original publication. Copies available of Notes from October 1984 onward, price 20p per issue. No index available.





Other Publications

Workhouses of The North by Peter Higginbotham
published July 2006 (reprinted Nov. 2007) by Tempus Publishing at £12.99. ISBN 0752440012

Workhouses of The Midlands by Peter Higginbotham
published September 2007 by Tempus Publishing at £12.99. ISBN0752444883



BOOKS ABOUT GREAT HALLINGBURY

The Great House of Hallingbury
Heather M. E. M. Cocks
Price: £4.00
From Great Hallingbury Local History Society: cjcoultrup@dial.pipex.com
Great Hallingbury Village The Years of Change
Ernest W.C. Field
Price £4.00
ISBN O 9514106 1 X
From Great Hallingbury Local History Society: cjcoultrup@dial.pipex.com
When the Busy World was Hushed
Ernest W. C. Field
Price £6.00
ISBN O 9514 106 3 6
From Great Hallingbury Local History Society: cjcoultrup@dial.pipex.com
Parish Invasion Committee
Ernest W. C. Field
Price: £2.50
From Great Hallingbury Local History Society: cjcoultrup@dial.pipex.com

Bush End School
Ernest W.C. Field
Price £2.50
From Great Hallingbury Local History Society: cjcoultrup@dial.pipex.com

Great Hallingbury School
Ernest W.C. Field
Price £2.50
From Great Hallingbury Local History Society: cjcoultrup@dial.pipex.com
St. Giles Church
Price £1.25
From Great Hallingbury Local History Society: cjcoultrup@dial.pipex.com


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