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Cholesbury-&-St Leonard's Local History Group

Cholesbury-&-St Leonard's Local History Group is an amateur society founded in the early Sixties to stimulate interest in the Hilltop Villages. A regular feature has been the talks by guest speakers, be they acknowledged experts or enthusiastic amateurs, and the emphasis is naturally on subjects local to the Chilterns.

No one who delves into history comes away without regretting a lack of documentation on some aspect or other. The Group has built up a fairly substantial archive of local documents, maps and photographs but this can never be complete and additions from any source are welcome, however trivial they may seem. Help us to record today what may not exist tomorrow, whether it be a building or a bus service!

You can read the programme for this year's (2009/10) talks here.

An excellent newsletter is published on a regular basis for members.

Local history newsletter

Newsletter No. 10: 2006/07 No. 11: 2007/08 No. 12: 2008/09
No. 7: 2003/04 No. 8: 2004/05 No. 9: 2005/06
No. 4: 2000/01 No. 5: 2001/02 No. 6: 2002/03
No. 1: 1997/98 No. 2: 1998/99 No. 3: 1999/2k

(These files are in PDF format. For free reader software download Acrobat from Adobe if you don't already have it.)

 

Local History Site Index

This year's Programme of Events

From Danish tax collectors to Chiltern District Council - a history of the parish

An Iron Age Hill fort in our midst - Prehistoric Settlements

Bankruptcy strikes in the Chilterns - Cholesbury and the Poor Laws

Our connection to the New Colonies - The Putnam Family

History of the Pubs in the Parish - it appears that the hilltop villages were very thirsty places in years gone by.

What story can these hedgerows tell about the history of our locality?

"Beating the Bounds" - when walking round in circles makes good sense.

Neither grim nor really a ditch - Grim's Ditch

"Men's Club", as was - Cholesbury Village Hall


The latest information about the Field Names Survey

 

2009 - 2010 programme

Fri 2 October 2009

Cholesbury
Village Hall

HEDGEHOG'S NORTHCHURCH

Bert Hosier

Fri 6 November

St Leonards
Parish Hall

120 YEARS OF THE CHESHAM SHUTTLE

Clive Foxell

Fri 4 December

St Leonards
Parish Hall

BONE, STRAW AND PAPER

Paul Chamberlain

Fri 8 January 2010

St Leonards
Parish Hall

SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL AND ITS ENVIRONS

John and Jo Brewster

Fri 5 February

St Leonards
Parish Hall

THE WORK OF A NATIONAL TRUST WARDEN AT ASHRIDGE

Lawrence Troubridge

Fri 5 March

St Leonards
Parish Hall

SOME TURNPIKE ROADS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Peter Gulland

Fri 9 April

Cholesbury
Village Hall

THE INEXHAUSTIBLE MR PAXTON

Russell Bowes

Fri 7 May

 

Cholesbury
Village Hall
8pm sharp

Members' evening and Annual General Meeting

 

All meetings at 8:00 pm for 8:15pm
(except AGM 8pm sharp)

Membership: £8.00 p.a. Visitors welcome £3.00 per meeting

Please contact: Barry Warr 01784 454950 for further information


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