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Moreton in Marsh & District

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Welcome to the site of the Moreton in Marsh & District Local History Society.

Founded 1982

The Society was founded 30 years ago to promote the study of local history within Moreton-in-Marsh and the surrounding district. Moreton is the centre of a countryside steeped in history. The town itself lies on the end moraine of an Ice Age glacier, at the watershed between the Thames and Severn river systems. It is surrounded by a beautiful and varied countryside, from the Cotswold Hills on one side to the rich agricultural land of the Warwickshire Avon on the other. A short distance away, the Four Shire Stone marks a spot where until comparatively recently a complicated pattern of parish and county boundaries existed.

Since its inception the Society, with an average membership of 100, has carried out a programme of talks and visits, concentrating, as far as possible, on local villages and towns and the people who lived in them.

The Committee have published two books, as well as a quarterly magazine (now sadly discontinued). The book, Four Shires Memories, is still available at a cost of £5 (click on Publications)

The complete store of the Society’s archives have now been scanned. Historic information is now readily available in a digital format.

Our meetings are held in the Women’s Institute Hall, New Road (road with Post Office), Moreton-in-Marsh, at 7.30 p.m. unless otherwise stated.

Visitors and potential new members will all find a welcome at our meetings (see below for dates and times). If you are a non-member who wishes to join, or attend a particular meeting that interests you, just turn up on the evening and make yourself known to one of the committee.

Canon Tim Sedgeley

Chairman

 

How to Contact Us

More information on how to join the society can be obtained by email: hornblowsuz@hotmail.com

 

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Archives

Most of the archive photographic material (that was under the care of the late Guy Stapleton) has now been scanned and is in a digital format. To view any of this content, please contact Mike Rees (mjrees39@gmail.co.uk).

 

The Society is currently looking for a permanent home for all this archive material (digital and hardcopy). The Society has also negotiated the use of a display cabinet in the Cotswold District Council Centre in Moreton.

 

Meetings

The next round of meetings start in March 2023:

Wednesday, 8th March 2023
Warrior Women During the Civil War
by Stephen Barker

Wednesday, 12th April 2023
Medieval Cirencester
by Tim Porter

Wednesday, 10th May 2023
Bess Of Hardwick and Hardwick Hall
by Gillian White

The full list of meetings for 2023/2024 can be viewed by clicking on the Meetings tab

 

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