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Blackdown maps
Historic maps of Blackdown and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Blackdown maps
Blackdown photos
We have no photos of Blackdown, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Kittwhistle| Marshalsea| Marshwood| Bettiscombe| Broadwindsor| Winsham| Lamberts Castle| Stoke Abbott| Hawkchurch| Marshwood Vale| Whitchurch Canonicorum| Crewkerne| Misterton| Netherbury| Beaminster| Chardstock| Morcombelake| Chard| Hinton St George| Millwey Rise| Charmouth| Cloakham| North Perrott| Melplash| Merriott| Axminster| Symondsbury| Haselbury Plucknett| Pymore| Mangerton
Blackdown area books
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Memories of Blackdown
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Childhood Memories
I was born at Hill View Lamberts Castle in the 1940s. Mum use to run a small tea rooms and I remember a hiking organisation called the Holiday Fellowship calling their once a week. No mains water, electricity or gas made running the tea rooms a difficult job. She had to walk 200 yards for buckets of water from a stream from the nearby woods. I have many many memories of those years.
Lambert's Castle
I remember going to Lamberts Castle fair as a small child sometime around 1955. The fair was run by the Herbert family but they stopped running it sometime in the mid 1950s because it was not financially viable. I understand at one time the fair included horse racing and existed because of a royal charter.
Robert Elwell
I am looking for information on Robert Elwell or family in Stoke Abbott around 1610.
Robert Elwell sailed on the ship Recovery in March 1633 to the Massachusetts Bay in America.
Family Visits
I have many memories of visiting my Grandparents, George and Liza Ireland, who lived on the end of Major's Terrace, (I think it was called then) next door to the Crown and Anchor (now the Pottery). A particular fond memory is of my Granparents' Golden Wedding Anniversary, held at the Crown and Anchor, where all eleven surviving children (they had fifteen) gathered to celebrate. Most of the family could play the melodeon; some played piano accordian and concertina. Whenever we had a family get-together, there was enough talent within the family to create our own entertainment. All the children were educated at Mosterton School and my mother spoke with much affection of her teacher, Mrs. Stuckey (if my memory serves me correctly). Mosterton was a very quiet village then with no cars racing through, as now. So safe was it in those days, that even as a small child, I was allowed to walk to the shop, by the bridge to buy sweet from Miss Wilmot,... Read more
My Dad
My Dad
The church at Whitchurch is a lovely place to wander and muse. My father died out shooting at Mapperton when I was 11, and what a terrible shock it was.
What is nice for me now, 25 years later, is to still be able to walk down through the village past the 5 Bells pub, or over the lovely rolling fields, to the church yard where his grave lies amongst the rustling of the trees, birds chatting to each other, gentle sunshine making patterns on the grass as it peeks through the trees, and a general sense of timelessness and peace that I have found over recent years to be so soothing.
What a special place!!
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
I was about 3 years old when the present Queen was crowned. Us children went up to the manor house where they held a party outside. I remember someone with a cine camera filming the event. I have always wondered what became of that film which almost certainly showed me enjoying the party. I lived at the village post office and general store and knew everyone in the village as I used to serve in the shop from the age of about six. The post office and shop have long since gone and the vilage school has closed. They still have the village club but they never had any pubs. However, researching the village's history I have found out that Knapp Farm was origially a coaching inn called The old Knapp Inn. That closed in 1910. I used to play in that farm house with the farmer's daughter Kay Huxter. I was alway's puzzled as to why they had two separate staircases in that house and a bay window which... Read more
Historic Families
I am searching for my ancestors from Netherbury the family names are Toogood, Tolley, Spraklen, Meech, Clarke, Hoskens, Maish, Cox. These are names going back to the early 1700.
Netherbury has held my interest since I was a child and at last I am going to be able to see it for myself armed with the names of my ancestors.
It would be so very good to know if anyone living in Netherbury is able to help with my search.
