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 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
• The Painted Lady
• The Story of Great Aunt Ada
• Fossils
• Steeple Aston Through the lens
• Murder at the Holt
• Village Gardens of the Past