©Bryan Phillips Sep 2024

The Milton Abbas Local History Group is about to embark on its new season of talks and research.

The talks will be focused on the history of Milton Abbas and they will mostly be given by members of the group who have been busy researching. The next talk on Wed 2 October 19:30  in the Reading Rooms will be on the Milton Abbas men who served at Waterloo. Also this season there will be talks on the New Town Houses, Researching Local History, the Churchwardens of Milton Abbas, and the Move of the Old Town to the New Village.

New documents are being found all the time and we now have a catalogue of over 5300 which can be searched by our members.

Our website is still expanding and now has 200 blog posts as well as 110 pages of detailed historical facts about this amazing place. You can use the search box on every page of the website to find information which you are interested in. Any suggestions are always welcome, of course. Please come along to our meetings or contact us on our website Contact page and tell us of your interests.

The history group also has a Research Group who meet four times a year to discuss their progress. Some of the topics being actively researched are the people and community of Milton Abbas just before, during and after WW1, histories and occupations of important Milton Abbas families, the lives of the people of Milton Abbey’s manors in the fourteenth century, the building and contents of the manor house from the Dissolution to the present, the life and letters of Caroline Damer, 

If you have other topics which pique your interest please come along and meet us.

Next meeting in the Reading Rooms is Wednesday 2 October, 19:30. We look forward to meeting you.