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Category Archives: Milton Abbey
Discovering Elston – talk by Anne Brown
YOU HAVE MISSED THIS TALK! ©Bryan Phillips Jul 2025 We are hoping to persuade Anne Brown to repeat her talk to the Milton Abbas Local History Group next season – watch this space. It was superb. Over 100 people were lucky … Continue reading
Posted in Medieval history, Milton Abbey, records
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Graffiti in Milton Abbey Church, a first look
© Clive Barnes Jan 2025 We are not talking here about the kind of graffiti you can create with a spray can and you find on railway bridges and elsewhere. The graffiti that interests us are the ancient, often unnoticed, … Continue reading
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“Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” – song, Good Charlotte
© Anne Litchfield Dec 2024 A peek into the life and lifestyle of Jacob Bancks 1704-1738 through his goods and assets as outlined in the inventory attached to probate documents in The National Archives. When he died in 1738 aged … Continue reading
Posted in Damer, local history, Milton Abbas, Milton Abbey, Old Town of Milton Abbas, records
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Cerne Abbas: its abbey and giant
©Bryan Phillips Oct 2024 We were at the recent conference ‘Cerne Giant and other Wessex Hill Figures’ at the Dorset Museum which discussed the dating of the phallic giant. There were some interesting talks: one by Barbara Yorke, University of … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, archaeology, Dorset, Milton Abbey, St Catherine's Chapel
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Winchester College Archives – new findings
©Bryan Phillips Oct 2024 A huge thank you to Winchester College and their archivist, Suzanne Foster, for helping the Milton Abbas Local History Group with its medieval research. There are early manorial documents concerning many of Milton Abbey’s manors. These … Continue reading
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Sheep and Wool in medieval Milton Abbas
©Bryan Phillips Aug 2024 Take a look at our new page on this website devoted to sheep on the Milton Abbey monastery’s manors. This is part of our exploration of life as a peasant worker in Milton Abbas when wages … Continue reading
Posted in farming, landscape, local history, Medieval history, Milton Abbey
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Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 