Current Project

• Avon Dassett VE Day Newspaper

World War I Project

• The Extraordinary and the Everyday: A Year in the Life of a Rural Community (funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund)

Diamond Jubilee Project

• A Chronicle of Avon Dassett by Jill Burgess and Sarah Richardson (funded by Warwickshire County Council)

Articles

• Coronation Celebrations in Avon Dassett, 1953 programme kindly supplied by MW and DEM Watts 
• The Sealey Family of Avon Dassett (articles and photographs by Winifride Mary Therese Hadland and Tony Hadland)
• Trees and Grounds of Bitham Hall Avon Dassett information kindly supplied by Sandra Rice 
• Syd Watts Peak Canada and Avon Dassett by Kerrie Andrew
• Bitham Hall, Avon Dassett and Clonalis House, County Roscommon by Pyers O’Conor-Nash
• Crime and Society in Nineteenth-Century Avon Dassett by Sarah Richardson
• The Judd Family of Avon Dassett by David Judd
• The Red Horses of Tysoe by Sarah Richardson
• The Kingsmill Memorial, Radway and the English Civil War by Sarah Richardson
• Myrtilla, the Slave Buried at Oxhill by Sarah Richardson
• Avon Dassett and the Lay Subsidy of 1322 by Sarah Richardson
• Avon Dassett and the Hearth Tax by Sarah Richardson
• A Brief History of Avon Dassett by Sarah Richardson

Avon Dassett Local History Sources

• See this page for our transcriptions of sources, ready to download

Aims of the Local History Group

• researching the village and local community;
• researching particular local buildings;
• collecting village memories and sources;
• writing for the website or for publication;
• inviting guest speakers

For more information, or to get involved contact Sarah Richardson.