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 looks 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