Harwell ~ Village for a thousand years

• 1: Home
  • 1.1: Sitemap
• 2: The Book
  • 2.1: Contents
  • 2.2: Beginnings
    • 2.2.1: The Beginnings of Harwell
    • 2.2.2: The Charters
  • 2.3: Middle Ages
    • 2.3.1: Harwell Church
    • 2.3.2: The Medieval Manors
    • 2.3.3: Cruck Buildings
  • 2.4: Tudors
    • 2.4.1: The Tudor period
    • 2.4.2: Berkshire Farmers
    • 2.4.3: The Harwell Mug
    • 2.4.4: The Family Name
    • 2.4.5: Trade Tokens
    • 2.4.6: In the Civil War
  • 2.5: Charities
    • 2.5.1: John Loder
    • 2.5.2: Christopher Elderfield
    • 2.5.3: Poor's Orchard
    • 2.5.4: William Wells
    • 2.5.5: J. King
    • 2.5.6: Frances Geering
    • 2.5.7: Matthew Eaton
    • 2.5.8: Robert Loder
    • 2.5.9: Bagg's Tree
    • 2.5.10: An Old Harwell Recipe
  • 2.6: 19th C
    • 2.6.1: Enclosures
    • 2.6.2: The Great Fire of Harwell
    • 2.6.3: Fire at Didcot Station
    • 2.6.4: Harwell and the Early Posts
  • 2.7: People
    • 2.7.1: The Manor of Bishop's Harwell
    • 2.7.2: The Bob Lays
    • 2.7.3: The Bosley Family
    • 2.7.4: John Lay
    • 2.7.5: An old woman of Harwell
    • 2.7.6: Thomas James Pryor
      • 2.7.6.1: T.J. Pryor Letter
      • 2.7.6.2: T.J. Pryor Poem
    • 2.7.7: The Day Family
    • 2.7.8: The Hitchman Family
    • 2.7.9: Other Old Harwell Families
    • 2.7.10: Pillar House
      • 2.7.10.1: John Bacon
      • 2.7.10.2: L. Leslie Brooke
    • 2.7.11: Dr Richard Rice
    • 2.7.12: Kelly's Directory
    • 2.7.13: The School Log-book
      • 2.7.13.1: School Photos
    • 2.7.14: Pictorial Miscellany
  • 2.8: 20th C
    • 2.8.1: Stanley Day
      • 2.8.1.1: The Turn of the Century
      • 2.8.1.2: A Visit to Harwell
    • 2.8.2: Tape Recordings
      • 2.8.2.1: A Houseboy at Harwell
      • 2.8.2.2: Eliza Hutchings
      • 2.8.2.3: Harwell Bakeries
      • 2.8.2.4: The Eggs
      • 2.8.2.5: Old Neighbours
      • 2.8.2.6: Fire at King's Farm
      • 2.8.2.7: Will It Light?
      • 2.8.2.8: Miss Irene Clarke
      • 2.8.2.9: Miss Clarke's School
    • 2.8.3: Poem by H.S. Baker
  • 2.9: WWII
    • 2.9.1: The Second World War
    • 2.9.2: Guinea Pig Club
    • 2.9.3: Harwell in Wartime - I
    • 2.9.4: Harwell in Wartime - II
    • 2.9.5: School Life in Wartime
    • 2.9.6: The Harwell Players
  • 2.10: 1945-85
    • 2.10.1: AERE
    • 2.10.2: Harwell Parish Council
    • 2.10.3: Water and Sewage
    • 2.10.4: Nursing Service
    • 2.10.5: School Life after the War
    • 2.10.6: The Winterbrook Youth Club
    • 2.10.7: The Public Houses
    • 2.10.8: The Whit Monday Feast
    • 2.10.9: Wild Flowers of Harwell
    • 2.10.10: The Bee Orchid
    • 2.10.11: Village Footpaths
    • 2.10.12: St Matthew's Church Today
    • 2.10.13: Harwell Women's Institute
    • 2.10.14: Harwell Bowls Club
    • 2.10.15: Harwell Football Club
  • 2.11: Cherries
    • 2.11.1: Robert Loder
    • 2.11.2: Cherries (1965)
    • 2.11.3: Gordon Bosley
    • 2.11.4: The Cherries
  • 2.12: Appendices
    • 2.12.1: Harwell Charters
      • 2.12.1.1: Introduction
      • 2.12.1.2: Charter No 1
      • 2.12.1.3: Charter No 2
      • 2.12.1.4: Charter No 3
      • 2.12.1.5: Charter References
    • 2.12.2: Buildings
    • 2.12.3: Glossary
    • 2.12.4: Contributors
    • 2.12.5: References
• 3: New Material
  • 3.1: Photo updates
  • 3.2: Harwell Geology
    • 3.2.1: The solid stuff
    • 3.2.2: A section through Harwell
    • 3.2.3: Sarsens
    • 3.2.4: Surface Drift Deposits
    • 3.2.5: The Bargain Stone
  • 3.3: Listed Buildings
  • 3.4: The Kicking Donkey
  • 3.6: Harwell in Maps
• 4: Archives
  • 4.1: All the photos
  • 4.2: Harwell News

Harwell Charities

Robert Loder, who kept his farm accounts from 1610 - 20 was born an Elizabethan in 1589, but grew up to make his book in the reign of James I. The agricultural prosperity and countryside peace during which Shakespeare wrote was as its height. Of their comparative plenty, Harwell people began to donate lands for charity.

• 2.5.1: John Loder
• 2.5.2: Christopher Elderfield
• 2.5.3: Poor's Orchard
• 2.5.4: William Wells
• 2.5.5: J. King
• 2.5.6: Frances Geering
• 2.5.7: Matthew Eaton
• 2.5.8: Robert Loder
• 2.5.9: Bagg's Tree
• 2.5.10: An Old Harwell Recipe

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