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
• What are these Plaques
  
• Birdseye View of Wilkins
• Hero or Murderer
  
• A walk through village history with SAVA
  
• A jubilee for a mad king
  
• Farming in Steeple and Middle Aston - a review