The Manorial Court Rolls for Stalbridge
What are The Stalbridge Manorial Court Rolls? In October of 2022 a small team comprising Dave Harris, Helen Wright and Claire Wright finished the two year project of transcribing and translating nine Latin manorial court rolls for Stalbridge manor. The main printed document is available to view by appointment at the Stalbridge Archive. We have […]
Letters to Dear Readers (Pt. 5)
Dear Readers, When last I wrote to you about the Stalbridge of fifty-something years ago I left you standing at the end of the village, at the end of Coppern Way. The sun was shining, and the cows were peacefully grazing in their field: some of them were lying down, chewing the cud. Who was […]
Les Décrottoirs de Stalbridge
Despite the fact that the Romans built raised pavements with stepping stones connecting them, so you could cross a road without disappearing under the mud, up until the end of the eighteenth century, only the poor walked around the towns and cities. The wealthy travelled on horseback and in carriages along the bumpy, rutted and often […]