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Manuden Local History Society
The society was founded in 1986.
Meetings are held at: 'The Bury Barn', Manuden, Essex
every third Thursday of the month at 8 pm from September to May.
Membership is by subscription: Full £10 Seniors £8 Visitors £1.
Research projects have included:
- Churchyard Survey
- Field Names Projects
- Field Walking and Archaeology in the area
- Oral History
- Parish Map Project
- Parish Record Computerisation
- Photography and recording of Church Hassocks
- Tithe Map Recording
- Vernacular Architecture courses and
- Recording of vernacular architecture in village
- Manuden WW I Memorial research project
- House History research project.
Publications:
- Sir William Waad, Lt. of the Tower and The Gunpowder Plot. £7
(Sir William lived in Manuden during the Elizabethan and Stewart period)
- The Manor of Battles Hall, Manuden - the history of a manor - Price £3 plus postage
- Manuden during the Second World War - Price £3 plus postage
- Waterside School, Hassobury - a history - Price £2.50 + p.
- Manuden Appraisal Report (in collaboration with the Parish
Council) includes a short history of Manuden. Price £2 plus
postage.
- Manuden Church Leaflet - 40p available in church.
Exhibitions have been staged on Agricultural History
and World War II.
Recent projects:
- Domesday II Survey of Village
- Photographic Exhibition - May 2000
- Historical Re-enactment of village history by children - May 2000
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