The Shipton Prebend: An Early History
The following article by Anthea Jones was published in the 1995 Wychwoods Local History Society Journal No10. It asks some interesting questions about the origins of the Shipton prebend, and […]
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Prebendal House, Shipton: Archaeological Review
The following article appeared in the Wychwoods Local History Society Journal Number 4, published 1988. It features an in-depth study of the development of the building and its fabric. This […]
Australia Bound: From Ascott to the “Promised Land”
The following article by Wendy Pearse appeared in Vol 31 [ PDF here ] of the Wychwoods Local History Society Journal. It was published in 2016. It focusses in detail […]
Apprentice Boys: Charity Records Revisited
Here is an article by Wendy Pearse, published in the Society Journal No 30, 2015 In the latter part of the 20th century the long-established firm of Farrant and Sinden […]
Life in Old Milton
This article was by Olive Barnes, later Mrs Olive Frost, who was born in The Square, Milton under Wychwood in 1907 and later lived in Calais Cottage, Frog Lane. It […]
Cotham Cottage, Milton
This article by Norman Frost is taken from Volume 1 of the WLHS Journal Series. It was written in 1985 and in the detail there are charming reminders of 18th […]