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Author Archives: miltonabbashistorygroup
One Place Studies
©Bryan Phillips May 2024 If you have an ancestor who came from Milton Abbas at any time in the past going as far back as 1317 then you are in luck! We have already done the research that you need … Continue reading
Lyscombe
©Bryan Phillips Apr 2024 Another phase in the history of Lyscombe has just opened up – literally. 335 hectares of chalk downland has been purchased by, and will be managed for rewilding by Dorset Wildlife Trust. For details see their … Continue reading
Posted in history, local history, Medieval history
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The Sale of Hilton manor to Lord Milton 1784
© Bryan Phillips Apr 2024 We have obtained some high resolution images of the deed of sale of the village of Hilton to Lord Milton. This was dated 15 May 1784, and there are twenty large pages of it. One … Continue reading
Country Life
© Bryan Phillips Mar 2024 The Country Life archive is now available on British Newspaper Archives and Find my Past. A search for Milton Abbas reveals over 400 records and Milton Abbey 350. The individual pages of the articles are … Continue reading
Posted in Capability Brown, Damer, Hambro, local history, Tregonwell
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Overseers of the Poor Accounts
Published OoP Accounts books are as rare as hen’s teeth. I remain astonished by this fact since not only are they a name rich source for family historians but they are also a prime example of showing the living and … Continue reading
Lord Milton attends Blandford races 1786
The Blandford races had been held since 1603 at Race Down and attended by the worthies of Dorset. It is remarkable that there exists a list of those arriving in 1786 and Lord Milton with his ‘Coach and six Bays’ … Continue reading
Posted in Damer, local history, records
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Moved villages – Holkham, Norfolk
Although the Right Honourable Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, decided to move the village of Holkham to allow the building of his new stately home in the 1730s, it might have been an example of an earlier moved village, but … Continue reading
Posted in Damer, Dorset, local history, Milton Abbas, Old Town of Milton Abbas
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