Harwell, Village for a thousand years
A Harwell Miscellany
In 1985 the villagers of Harwell, in Oxfordshire, England, celebrated their first millennium.
They compiled a book, Village for a thousand years, as a souvenir of Harwell's recorded life of one thousand years.
The book is now out of print, but the Harwell Parish Council has decided to publish it here on their web site, so that the history and recollections of the village can be available to a new generation.
Find your way around by using the menu above, which follows the chapters in the book. At the bottom of each page are links so that you page forwards or backwards through the text.
Click on the image thumbnails to see larger versions in the Archives.
We've provided the opportunity to comment on each page, to provide additional information, or to point out any corrections in the original text. We've also added a new section where we will endeavour to add more information which was not in the original book. If you'd like to contribute, please contact the webmaster, (tel: 01235 835 430)
Contributors to the original book are acknowledged in Appendix IV.
For this 2008 website, thanks to
- Martin Ricketts for digitising the text from the book, and for scanning all the photographs, and for new content and photos.
- David Marsh for creating and hosting the website, and for the domain name village4a1000years.com.
- The Harwell Parish Council for supporting the project.
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A fantastic effort to make this book accessible to all. Well done David and Martin. But of course well done to the original creators of the book. We count ourselves lucky to have come to a village having not just so much history, but the great foresight of a group of people to get it recorded in a fine book. And now it's been put on the web.
I see the original group members have all been acknowledged (Appendix iv, Contributors), although an email from Bill Woollen suggests that Ruth Woollen was not credited for the driving force she must have been as Chair of the group getting everything together.( I think that is what he meant, although he actually says that Ruth was credited, I suspect he missed the word "not" )
So I say "a special thank you to Ruth"
Thanks
Norman Staples