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Historic maps of Churchstanton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Churchstanton maps
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Blagdon Hill| Upottery| Pitminster| Corfe| Yarcombe| Buckland St Mary| Wellington| Trull| Culmstock| Rockwell Green| Bradford On Tone| Westford| Orchard Portman| Nynehead| Stockland| Stoke St Mary
Churchstanton area books
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Family History
I have been told that my great aunt was a teacher in the 1900s. Her name was Emily Huxtable and she is mentioned as living in Pitminster in the 1901 Census, possible a teacher at the local school. Would anyone locally have any knowledge of my great aunt? Many thanks Marion Watkins
Anna''s Outing to The Wellington Monument
I have driven up and down the M5 so many times and seen a monument on top of the Blackdown Hills. Each time I passed I wondered what it was and so eventually I got hold of an Ordnance Survey map and identified it as the Wellingotn Monument. I promised myself that one day I would actually NOT drive past but I would make an outing specifically to go and see it. And so today I took my wife Elizabeth and granddaughter Anna for a picnic to Somerset.
We found a small muddy National Trust car park which was filled with half a dozen cars, then tramped along a bumpy puddle strewn track for half a mile between neglected woods towards the unseen monument. What a disappointment! Not only was the monument surrounded by bracken and trees which obscured the hoped for viewpoint over the valley to the north but the monument itself was totally enclosed within a stockade of ten feet high garishly painted steel fencing.... Read more
Stories Coming to Life.
What a find!! My great and great great grandparents lived in South Street, Wellington. I couldn't believe it when I had a closer look at this photo, on the right hand side of this there is a drapery shop and it has their name over the doorway. GRATTON. I had heard stories of the drapery shop in Wellington but never imagined that I would see it. What a brilliant web site too.
Evacuation
My memories of Wellington are ones of feeling very homesick. I went there in November 1940. I stayed at the Vintage Hotel. I believe Mr & Mrs Joseph were the proprieters and they were very kind to me. They had a daughter named Betty but I was very unhappy, I was only there for a couple of weeks, it was decided I was to go and stay with my aunt who was billeted elsewhere in the town, but I just wanted to go home. I will never forget Christmas 1940, my grandparents came to see me. When they arrived I remember saying to them "I've got three shillings and four pence, please take me home" (about 17p). Needless to say I returned back to London on 27th December. I was even pleased to see the barrage balloons, I knew I was home. Then I saw mum & dad and my little brother, it was wonderful. All these years later I have never forgotten how happy I felt, thankfully we all... Read more
Whitestaunton, Somerset
It was some time in 1941 I believe, when after enduring some weeks of the blitz I was evacuated away from London to an old farmhouse called Cinder Hill Farm a little outside the village of Whitestaunton. (I have no memory of how I got there.) My 'foster parents' were a Mr & Mrs Long. I remember there was an iron pump in the kitchen from where we obtained our drinking water and even on a hot day the water was always icy cold. There was another room where the milk and butter and other food was kept rather like a large walk in larder. The toilet was a sentry box about 10 yards away in the garden. The 'front' room seemed large with a huge open fireplace which always seemed to be lit. There was always a pot hanging over or near the flames. It was of course a log fire. We walked to school across the fields to what I now believe was the village... Read more
Memories
I've just discovered that my G.G.G. Grandfather's brother, Albert Fouracre, was the Licensed Victueller at this pub in 1891. Does that mean he was the Landlord?
Bradford on Tone Village School
I attended the village school and Mrs Richardson was our teacher, I lived in Taunton and travelled daily on the bus from Taunton and walked from the main road to the village school and back to the bus after school, I never remember it raining. I have very happy memories of the school and Mrs Richardson. I want to tell my grandchildren about my school days and would like to hear from anyone else who was at the school at the same time. looking at details of the village on the net it seems that the school is closed and I would like to know when this was. Lesley
