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
- The floods of 1998