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Author Archives: miltonabbashistorygroup
Athelstan’s Dream published
Thanks to the Milton Abbey Heritage Trust, Bryan Phillips is now a published author, Amazon page here and you can buy the Kindle book or the paperback on Athelstan’s Dream here All proceeds to Milton Abbey Heritage Trust.
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2018 Christmas Tree Festival
Many thanks to June McAvoy for this beautiful tree as the entry of the Milton Abbas Local History Group in the 2018 Christmas Tree Festival in St James Church, Milton Abbas.
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Pubs, Ponds and Power
This is a series of programmes from the BBC. One of the six episodes features Milton Abbas history. It is presented by Ben Robinson. The programme has been broadcast nationally five times since its first showing in January, 2019. It … Continue reading
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Tea Clipper Tea Rooms reopening
We were delighted to have lunch today at the newly opened and refurbished Tea Clipper. Alastair and Kathy Beaven with their daughters supplied us with a warm welcome, good coffee and a savoury cream tea. This is a great facility … Continue reading
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HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar
We have just found some exciting news – John Welstead, aged 38, from Milton Abbas was on-board the Victory at Trafalgar on 21 Oct 1805. He was bosun’s mate. We now need to carry out more research on this man … Continue reading
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1787 Payments for labourers
In the Dorset History Centre there are some bills from 1787 for Milton Abbas estate. These scraps of paper give an insight into the work that was going on, as well as the names of the labourers, and the amount … Continue reading
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Richard Ham, clock maker of Milton Abbas
This is the dial of an eight day clock showing that Richard Ham was a clock maker of Milton Abbas. This image was kindly given to us by Tim Marshall author, and he has dated the clock to around 1720. … Continue reading
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Scutt Family
This photo was given to us by Sybil Brown. She is compiling a biography of her aunt, Margaret Alice Scutt, whose third novel has recently been published posthumously. She was born in October 1905 and baptised that December in Weymouth, … Continue reading
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Location, location, location
In order to locate the key points on the Woodward 1770 survey and map, the Milton Abbas Local History Group have purchased a hand held sat nav – We can now find on the ground, on the site of the … Continue reading
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Lord Milton’s Irish Estate Rent Book
One of our members has now transcribed part of this book which is available on the Tipperary County Library website. We have a list of the holdings – is there a map of County Tipperary from this period so that … Continue reading
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Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 