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Articles


SAVA regularly publishes articles on various local historical themes in the village magazine ‘Steeple Aston Life’ (SAL). A selection of these is shown below; many can be downloaded as pdf files. For some of the articles a fuller version than that published in SAL is also available, either to view/download here or at the Village History Centre.
  • Skimmity-Riding
  • The Hanging Judge
  • The Surgeon Extraordinary and The Grange
  • Steeple Aston's Inclosures Award
  • Richard Duckworth (1650-1706)
  • Army exercises during the war
  • Love and Bread Making at Old Toms
  • Steeple Aston sends its Poor to Tasmania
  • My Visit to Rose and Jack Skinner
  • Midwinters
  • A ghostly story for Xmas
  • A Strange Object
  • Old Byways of Steeple Aston
  • The Flower de Luce and the Doctor's House
  • A Job Seeker in Steeple Aston around 1790
  • Seventy-Four Years ago in the Village School
  • Steeple Aston and the Census
  • Steeple Aston in 1801 (part 1)
  • Steeple Aston in 1801 (part 2)
  • The Painted Lady
  • The Story of Great Aunt Ada
  • Fossils
  • Steeple Aston Through the lens
  • Murder at the Holt
  • Village Gardens of the Past
  • A Walk around Steeple Aston 100 years ago
  • The Bradshaw Legacy
  • The Village and its Trees
  • A Pub with a Past
  • A Candle Factory, a Piggery, and two Maiden Ladies
  • A Gallery of Village Characters
  • Wilkins' Watercolours
  • How Old is Your House?
  • Photography around 1900
  • Wish You Were Here
  • Orchard Lea and Rousham House
  • Trouble at the Wheatsheaf
  • Brasenose Farm
  • Potato Pete
  • News Reports from Yesterday
  • From Gough to Google
  • Grange Farmhouse
  • The Village History Centre Opens
  • Lost Cottages of Steeple Aston
  • What is Kept in SAVA's Archive
  • Dr. Peacock's House
  • Snippets from the Parish Registers
  • Dr. Radcliffe: an old man look back
  • A History of Steeple Aston's Shops
  • The Birdseye View of Steeple Aston
  • What are these Plaques?
  • Where did all the Blacksmiths go?
  • When Street Lights came to Steeple Aston
  • Evacuees
  • Sad Tale of Taffy the Thief
  • Lawrence Burgis
  • Hill House and Elizabeth Lechmere
  • Claude Duval
  • Whatever happened to Mary Locke
  • Rifam Plank
  • Mine host at the Red Lion c1910
  • SAL Church exhibition review
  • 24 Square Miles
  • Steeple Aston in 100 Objects
  • Victorian village Postmistresses
  • Middle Aston and Cotswold Sheep  
  • Hero or Murderer
  • A walk through village history with SAVA
  • A jubilee for a mad king
  • Farming in Steeple and Middle Aston - a review


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