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Category Archives: Medieval history
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
The Milton Abbas Local History Group recently have been given some 30 volumes of this publication. They are now available for members to borrow from our library. A catalogue of all the articles is already available online. Most of the … Continue reading
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The Place Names of Milton Abbas
Bryan Phillips’ presentation given to the history group on 7 Jun 2023 is now available for members on this website. The pdf contains the full speaker notes. The MALHG have a spreadsheet of more than 1000 field names contained in … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Domesday, landscape, local, local history, Medieval history, Milton Abbas, records
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Medieval Peasant Life
I am writing a series of articles about Milton Abbas during the reign of Edward II 1307 – 1325 and trying to discern what life was like for the people living here 700 years ago. Milton Abbas was a very … Continue reading
St Catherine’s Chapel
At our last meeting Helier Exon gave an account of the chapel, including the mystery of when it might have been founded. This presentation will shortly be available on our Member’s Section of the website. There are several myths about … Continue reading
Christmas Tree Festival 2022
Thanks to Ann Fookes who organised the tree and to Nicky Griffin for decorating it with images of the medieval tiles of St Catherine’s Chapel. This is the contribution from the Milton Abbas Local History Group for this year. There … Continue reading
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Court Roll of a manor of Milton Abbey
This is a snippet from a court roll for the manor of Sydling St Nicholas which was then held by Milton Abbey. This one is dated 11 Jul in the 8th year of the reign of Richard II which can … Continue reading
The Reredos of Milton Abbey Church
A dissertation by James Bowler at the University of St Andrews has recently come to our notice which is titled ‘The Life and Afterlife of an English Reredos: A Contextual, Restorative and Aesthetic Analysis of the Great Screen of Milton … Continue reading
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Abbot’s Hall, Milton Abbey,
Part 1 development of medieval halls The Abbot’s Hall is securely dated 1498 and was part of Abbot William of Middleton’s refurbishment of the buildings destroyed in the fire of 1309 (yes it took nearly 200 years!). His rebus is … Continue reading
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Field Names in Milton Abbas
The Milton Abbas Local History Group have some great resources for locating the field names of this parish. We have large scale maps of 1652, and 1770 which name the fields. We have put all this information into a spreadsheet. … Continue reading
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Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 