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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 (2007/08) talks here.
An excellent newsletter is published on a regular basis for
members. You can read them here:
(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
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