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The Lychgate
The Lychgate is where they used to put coffins as part of the burial service. The Ashwell lychgate was built about 600 years ago and it is one of the few double lychgates in the country. Before the eighteenth century most people were nor buried in coffins but simply wrapped in shrouds, so it could be that the gable ends were filled in so as to keep out the rain. Researched and enjoyed by Maisie Briggs (9), Willa Briggs (7), Ell...
The Bushel and Strike
... Paul Massey It was a great place and one I have happy memories of from around 1980 ...
Headmaster's House
... James Lewis I was privileged to live in "the Centre" in the late 60's early 70's when my father ran the Field Studies Centre and it was a hive of activity in terms of village life - jumble sales being particularly popular! ...
Ashe Cottage
Ashe Cottage is a Grade II listed building In the Ashwell Building and Antiquities magazine, 1977, it is described as “17th/18th Century, one storey and attics, timber framed and rough cast plaster with some brick facing, 2 gabled dormers and a tiled roof . The building was extended in 1974.” It is rumoured that one of the builders who built the Ashwell Merchant Taylors’ School lived in Ashe Cottage. The cast iron back plate in the main fireplace...
39 Mill Street
39 Mill Street has always been a farmhouse or divided into cottages. Until 1911 the farmyard was where the garden is now. The room to the right of the front door was originally a hall reaching to the roof with an open fire in the centre. In about 1600 it was modernised by the erection of that great new invention, the ‘chimneystack’. At the same time the present ceiling was put in, creating a bedroom above. The hall had an inglenook fireplace f...
The Recreation Ground and Pavilion
Before the recreation ground was created in the nineteenth century football was played on the meadow at the Bury. In its early days sheep still grazed on the recreation ground. During the years of the First World War Ashwell had a hockey team. In the 1930s there were tennis courts on the rec, near where the war memorial now stands. The white shed you can see beside the playground was used as the pavilion till 1960. You can see it beh...
The Old Forge
This property, dating from 1825, was originally two small cottages, probably housing workers and their families who worked in the nearby chalk quarries and the Forge, which was used to turn the chalk into paint. We believe it should now be called Three Century Cottage since we have added extensions in 1996 and 2000. The people who have lived here Back in the 1930s Mr and Mrs Duffy and their son lived in number 36 (nearest the road). After that...
The Cuckoo
... The Cuckoo was a Fordham’s pub built prior to 1841 on the boundary of Ashwell and Hinxworth. It was fully licensed, and its customers would have been mainly men working in the nearby fields and in summer families out for an evening or weekend walk. It eventually closed in 1929. ...
The Chalkman's Knoll
... The Chalkman’s Knoll was a Fordhams pub situated halfway between Bygrave and Ashwell, which was convenient for those walking between the two villages and for those working in the fields.It was built of claybat, existed prior to 1841 and closed about 1950. It has now been demolished to allow a new house to be built on the knoll. ...
Two Brewers
... · The Two Brewers is a Grade II listed building and was built around 1550. · It is a timber framed building which was extended in 1900. · The building has been a pub, a shop and was possibly two houses. The clue to this is on the door! Where is house number 58? Can you see the door outlines from the high street? · The house is currently home to the van Maurik family who have lived here from 2010! ...
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... Ashwell Village Museum will be pleased to answer any enquiries you have The best way to reach us is to e-mail : enquiries@ashwellmuseum.org.uk or phone: 01462 742 956 Ashwell Village Museum Swan Street Ashwell Baldock Herts SG7 5NY ...
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