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Laverstock maps
Historic maps of Laverstock and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Laverstock maps
Laverstock photos
We have no photos of Laverstock, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Stoke Abbott| Bettiscombe| Broadwindsor| Marshalsea| Marshwood| Netherbury| Kittwhistle| Whitchurch Canonicorum| Marshwood Vale| Lamberts Castle| Beaminster| Morcombelake| Melplash| Symondsbury| Pymore| Chideock| Mangerton| Winsham| Hawkchurch| Bradpole| Bridport| Seatown| Misterton| Eype| Charmouth| Loders| Bothenhampton| Crewkerne| Walditch| West Bay
Laverstock area books
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Memories of Laverstock
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Dorset memories
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.
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.
Tolley Family History
I've yet to visit Netherbury where my Tolley ancestors were based. I'm interested to hear about the Tolley family shoemaker who moved to Surrey sometime in the 70's/80's. They lived in a part of Netherbury named Braddicks. My earliest connection with Dorset was hearing my father, George Tolley, sing what is presumably a rather bawdy Dorset folksong - Old John Braddl'em! Julia Tolley
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!!
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.
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.
