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Wymeswold Village Design Statement 2002
WHO publications available as free PDFs
The Wolds Historian 2004–2008
2000 Years of the Wolds
A walk Around Wymeswold
Wymeswold fieldwalking report 1993
In addition the WHO has digitised versions of:
- George Farnham's unpublished MS of notes about Wymeswold medieval history (akin to a 1920s update of Nichols)
- Enclosure Award and later maps plus assorted terriers held in the archive of Trinity College Cambridge
- Marshall Brown's pharmaceutical journal 1869
- Wymeswold school log books 1875–1982
- Wymeswold Parochial Charities minutes 1880–1930
- photographs taken by Philip Brown between 1890s and 1930s
- Sidney Pell Potter's A History of Wymeswold 1915
- Lily Brown's diary 1916
- Church Council Minute Book for St Mary's, Wymeswold 1932–1955
- WI survey of Wymeswold gravestones (St Mary's; Baptist chapel; Methodist chapel; 'The Quakers') 1981–2
- Rempstone Steam Fair programme 1983
Email bobtrubs@indigogroup.co.uk to discuss access to these (e.g. via memory stick or ZIP file).
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Download back issues of The Wolds Historian for free
The Wolds Historian No. 1 2004
The Wolds Historian No. 2 2005
The Wolds Historian No. 3 2006
The Wolds Historian No. 4 2008
Contents for The Wolds Historian No. 1 2004
Pugin and the windows of St Mary's Church, Wymeswold
Lost mileposts
All mod cons... public utilities in Burton
Charnwood Forest Railway
Simon Packe: soldier and composer
Hathernware
A photograph of Wymeswold choir taken about 1955–8
The things folk from round 'ere say...
The Siamese twins
Back Lane, Hoton
Chairman's report
Thorpe in the Glebe
download The Wolds Historian No. 1 2004
Contents for The Wolds Historian No. 2 2005
Chairman's report 2005
'Boys will be boys'
Journey's End!
Cotes Juxta Lughborowe
Whatever happened to the Skipwiths of Prestwold and Cotes?
Anyone seen great-great-grandad?
Wymeswold's ghosts
Hoton warning beacon
War graves in Burton
Looking in detail at the ancient Wolds
Thorpe in the Glebe
Advertisement for the enclosure of Hoton
The Wymeswold skull
Wymeswold Church choir 1955 to 1958
download The Wolds Historian No. 2 2005
Contents for The Wolds Historian No. 3 2006
Chairman's report 2006
The airfield in our midst
Polish camp revisited
Wold's wells
Village life in nineteenth century Hoton
Will of Joan Groves of Wymeswold
Burton's heritage lost in 2006
download The Wolds Historian No. 3 2006
Contents for The Wolds Historian No. 4 2008
Chairman's report
'A dozen of oysters and rice pudding for one…?' The account book of Charles William Packe
Wysall's 'Wise Boy'
Samuel and his daughters
The restoration of St Mary's, 1955–9
Rev Henry Alford while at Wymeswold
Philip Brown – Wymeswold's cricket legend
The planning of Wymeswold
George Kendall of Hoton
Wysall Lane, Wymeswold
The Packe Arms at Hoton
Feedback on 'The Airfield in our Midst'
The Greyhound Inn at Burton on the Wolds
'Well leaped, Lumley!'
download The Wolds Historian No. 4 2008
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