This is our collection of Studies that look at the history of individual houses within the village both in terms of the families that have occupied them, as shown to us in the censuses (issued once every ten years),and in terms of what changes to the fabric that we have been able to discern from the series of dated maps that are generally available to us. Our extensive archive of photographs have also been helpful in providing illustration.
We have often been much assisted by the current owners of the houses who have lent us whatever deeds and documents remain in situ, and in these cases we have been able to build a much more complete picture of ownership over the varied periods covered by the individual collections of deeds.
It cannot be said that these studies are comprehensive in their scope, but they do represent an honest attempt to draw together whatever information we have been able to gather and to present the result in an easy to read sequential format.
Volume 1 (published in2022) comprises:
Castle House
Victoria Hotel
Church House
Merton House
Manor House
Mansion House
Wilcox House
The Red House
The Beeches
Unlawater House
Volume 2 (also published in 2022) comprises:
Riverdale
Sparkfield House
Streetfield House
Clumber House
The Paddocks
The Sanctuary
Bentley House
Highfield Villas
The Lower George Hotel
Mornington Terrace
Newnham House
The Old House
Volume 3 (published in 2024) comprises
Wistaria House
Horwood House
Passage House
Ashley House
Kingston House
Bank House
Dean House
Bailey’s Stores
The Inglesides
Union Cottage
These three volumes were all originally published as loose-leaf books available for sale but, faced with falling sales and the need for further reprinting, we have decided to withdraw them from sale and instead to make them available on this History Group section of the village website.
In due course other house studies will follow and will be added to the website as they arise.