History

Whitchurch Councillor Sylvia Creed-Castle is a published author........
DORSET'S WESTERN VALE BY SYLVIA CREED ISBN NO 0902129899 published in 1986 can be purchased on Amazon or the book should be available in the local library. [A social history covering from approximately 1880 to the 1980s]
 
MARSHWOOD VALE - THE MAKING OF A LANDSCAPE 2021 by Bob Machin (our new councillor's daughter's father in law!) available from the author on 01308 423475 [email protected] [An historical study of the creation of the fields, farm, and settlements in the Vale using a range of original sources from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century]

Picture of flooding on Stockham Bridge taken by Cllr. Sylvia Creed-Castle in 2007

We're just starting this collection of material about the history of the parish. What better place to start than Rob Knight and the Nightingales of Prime Coppice?

​If you have photos, stories or anything else, please send them in.

• Matthew Shaw's recording of Kit Vaughan and Rob Knight and the Nightingales of Prime Coppice, with a recording from the only tape of the dawn and evening birdsong at Prime Coppice recorded in 1970.
  
• The Digory Gordges of Westhay Farm (article from the Jan 2020 edition of Char Chat)
• Cider-making in the Char Valley: photos from Sylvia Creed-Castle