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Barkham – A History
- £7.50
- Barkham was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. This book enables the reader to follow the lives of landowners, farmers and rectors as the Barkham story unfolds through the centuries. Includes a map showing farms, and fields mentioned in the text.
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Bearwood – 19th Century St. Catherine’s – Glimpses of Parish Life
- £3.20
- Parish Magazine extracts
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Newbury and Chilton Pond Turnpike Records 1766-1791, Berkshire Record Society volume 22.
- £25.00
- The surviving records of the turnpike trust exist for the period 1766-1791. Through them we learn how the road was planned and how funds were secured to get the turnpike trust established, and is a rich source for the wider story of turnpikes in Berkshire.
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Berkshire Contiguous Parishes
- £1.50
- This research guide lists all parishes alphabetically with their adjoining parishes in Berkshire. Where parishes are contiguous with other counties they are shown using the Chapman County Codes.
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Blewbury, This Venerable Village – Blewbury
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- Describes the history of the village, and the history of many of the houses and other buildings in the village.
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Bracknell, Holy Trinity – The Early years
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- The story of Holy Trinity Church told by a former resident. Adapted from a series of articles written for the Parish Magazine between 1968 and 1976.
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Broadmoor Revealed – Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum
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- LOW PRICE! Mark Stevens of the Berkshire Record Office reveals what life was like for the criminally insane 100 years ago. Mark has uncovered the lost lives of patients whose mental illnesses led them to become involved in crime.
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Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs – the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors
- £12.95
- Our seventeenth century ancestors may be people that we can identify, or may be nameless waiting to be discovered, and we should find out more about their way of life. This book sets out to provide us with some context with which to view them.
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Didcot, The Long Years of Obscurity, Volume 1, to 1841
- £3.50
- NEW LOWER PRICE History of the old town to 1841 (up to enclosures).
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East and West Ilsley, ‘Time, Gentlemen please’
- £8.00
- (300+ years of pubs and brewing in East and West Ilsley)
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East Ilsley “A Drunken Worthless Creature” Notes on parishioners, 1831
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- A series of notes on about 130 parishioners and their families prepared in 1831 by the Rev. George Thomas, curate of East Ilsley, for the benefit of his successor. Includes a coloured map that accompanies the Town Terrier and a list of occupiers.
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East Ilsley, ‘Far Famed for Sheep & Wool’. (A History of East Ilsley’s Markets & Fairs)
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- A History of East Ilsley's Markets & Fairs
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East Ilsley, The Origins of its name
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- Berkshire East Ilsley Local History Society
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Emmbrook, An Unfinished History
- £5.00
- Gives the history of the village and the Village Hall with tales of the activities carried on there. Includes many references to characters in the village and photographs and some maps.
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Emmbrook, Even More Unfinished History
- £5.00
- This third volume in the series of Emmbrook history booklets records and makes available information about some of the people and events connected with the village from the recent past.
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Emmbrook, More Unfinished History
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- This is the second booklet in the series of Emmbrook histories and relates histories of villagers and benefactors including the Leverson-Gower, Nicholson, Vialls, Heelas, Skinner, and Dunne families.
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Emmbrook, Much More Unfinished History
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- The sixth volume in the series of the Emmbrook histories on the people, places and activities of the village. This miscellany includes a Korean War soldier, dissent in the adjoining parish, estate developments and misdemeanours of local folk.
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