Village History Project
Mark Churchill is running the Charlton Marshall History Project, and has begun writing a book telling the story of the village. To register an interest in the book and be kept in touch with its progress please email mark.churchill@charltonmarshall.org.uk
Mark would still be very grateful for photographs or newspaper cuttings of village events and of buildings and roads before the 1980s, and in particular anything related to the Gospel Hall at Thornicombe or the Methodist Chapel in Gravel Lane.
Those of you who live in the older properties in the parish may have copies of your deeds from years back. If so, Mark would be very pleased if you would show them to him; especially, please will you look and see if the name Clark or Street appears in them, or if the property known as Hurdles is mentioned.
There seem to be very few descendants of old Charlton families living in the village now. If you are such a person, please do contact Mark.
Tel: 01258 452872 or email mark.churchill@charltonmarshall.org.uk
The articles below have mainly been published in the Three Villages News and have been left very much in their original format.
Introduction
1657: Churchwarden's Accounts
1713: Church Remodelling
1789: The Newfoundland Connection
1847: Church Room
1871: A case at County Court
1877: Primitive Methodist Preaching Room
1880: Fellmongers
1881: A fruitful pair
1881: Merrythought Bone
1885: A Conservative Meeting
1887: Village Pump
1888: Vandalism
1895: Church Restoration
1897: Yew Tree
1898: Weather
1908: Village Lecture
1910: Church Finances
1912: Weather
2005: Tombstones and Memorials
For those with an interest in the history of the railway, there is already some information about the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway online.