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Kittwhistle maps
Historic maps of Kittwhistle and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Kittwhistle maps
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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.
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
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.
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!!
Furze Lane, Beaminster
My folks live in Beaminster, and I also did in the early 1980s, and remember Furze Lane. The lane goes up from the Bridport Road across country to the Posy Tree at Mapperton. Although it has changed now, i.e. widened, as it is now suitable for vehicles, I think that the building on the left could be the farm buildings at the bottom of the lane.
Hann Family
I don't have a memory as such, but a lot of my family were born and bred in Beaminster, which I had a very brief visit to in 2009, I found it a very nice little village and would loved to have been able to stay longer and trace some of my family haunts and maybe been able to have come across people who would have been related to folk of that era, maybe they could have told me something of past times there and maybe my family. I now live in Western Australia, so will possibly not get back there again.
