Current Project
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.