Sarnesfield
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Research - 1700s
I am looking for information about Sarnesfield in the 1700s and about the court house. Also, as I live in Canada and do not know much about the British law system, I would need to know how the courts operated in those years. What I need to know is about the size of the town, prominent citizens, marketplace and anything else you could tell me about Sarnesfield. Or where I could obtain this information.
This is for a story I am writing and Sarnesfield is the place the characters in my story lived in the 1700s.
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Carole M. Lidgold, Author
Contributed by Carole Lidgold
Herefordshire memories
Research - 1700s
I am looking for information about Sarnesfield in the 1700s and about the court house. Also, as I live in Canada and do not know much about the British law system, I would need to know how the courts operated in those years. What I need to know is about the size of the town, prominent citizens, marketplace and anything else you could tell me about Sarnesfield. Or where I could obtain this information.
This is for a story I am writing and Sarnesfield is the place the characters in my story lived in the 1700s.
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Carole M. Lidgold, Author
A memory of Sarnesfield contributed by Carole Lidgold
Visiting the Corner House
I visited Weobley in the late 60s as a child with my Mother to visit our Herefordshire cousins. We stayed with Mum's Great Uncle Fred (Frederick Hope) and his daughter, Mabel Hope. They lived at the Corner House and I think Mabel's brother, Rogers Hope, lived near by in Broad Street. We came from London and I remember opening a cupboard door in the house to find a staircase. Mabel kept little hens in the back garden, which I think were gleeny fowl, which were the first live chickens I ever encountered. She sent us back to London with a basket of fresh eggs. My Grandmother, Mary Hope, was born at Bearwood Farm, near Pembridge ...read more here
A memory of Weobley contributed by Jane Dick
Gwendoline Langston
This photo shows my grandmother, Gwen Langston (1891 - 1963), with Mickey who was an Irish Terrier.
A memory of Kington contributed by Peter Harding-Roberts
Extracts From Sarnesfield & Herefordshire books
Compare this
charming rural scene
with the photograph
taken in 1924 on
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
Within the vestry of the abbey at the south-west end are stained glass windows dating from 1928. They commemorate St Peter
and St Paul and four historical characters linked with Malmesbury`s past: Maildulph, St Aldhelm, William of Malmesbury, and
the monk Eilmer, whose at flight in the 11th century is recorded by the historian William of Malmesbury.
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
The war memorial
is built on the site of
the old weighbridge,
and was dedicated in
a ceremony held in
1921. The van parked
by the Gothic-style
Methodist church
(left) belongs to
W Redman & Sons,
the butchers, whose
premises are next
door to G H Handy, a
tobacconist`s, which
was once Westport
Post Office. The sign
over the shop front
by the window is
advertising cigarettes.
The premises returned
to being a sub-post
office in 1996.
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
This fine photograph of
Malmesbury Abbey was taken
from the north, with the abbey
mill buildings below. Just
below the abbey we can see the
extensive orchard which has now
become the Cloister Gardens.
Flowing under the charming
bridge in the foreground is the
River Avon; this tributary is
called the Tetbury Avon (it is also
known as the Newnton River
or the River Ingleburne). The
Malmesbury Branch Railway line
is situated to the east of the river
- the GWR eventually opened
this line, which was linked to the
Dauntsey Railway, in December
1877. Dauntsey station was
opened c1868.
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".