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Things to do

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• Fish and chips supper
• Visit: Wendy the Detectorist
• Talk: Everything stops for tea
• You’re a poet and you didn’t know it!
• Easter crafty bakes
• Welcome to 2024!
• Christmas meal
• Fused glass workshop
• Oktoberfest 2023
• Owls & birds of pray talk
• Fish and chips supper
• How well do you know me?
• Hand massage & reflexology workshop
• Essex County Fire Service talk
• Card making workshop
• First meeting of 2023
• Christmas meal
• Would I lie to you?
• Oktoberfest 2022
• Reminiscences of a Stansted Customs Officer
• Life and Death in a Victorian Gaol
• Fish and chips supper
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• Meet Shelley
• Stambourne Ladies Group Meet-up
• Christmas meal
• Shopping and sightseeing in Norwich
• Acrylic painting for beginners
• Coffee and flowers in Tiptree
• Afternoon tea at Debden Barns
• Fish and chips supper
• Day out at Helmingham Hall Gardens
• Post-lockdown celebration in Stambourne

• A day out in…

• A day out in… Foulness Island
• A day out in… Bartlow Hills

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Newsletter

• Recent issues

• Stambourne Newsletter: April / May 2024
• Stambourne Newsletter: February / March 2024
• Stambourne Newsletter: December 2023 / January 2024
• Stambourne Newsletter: October / November 2023
• Stambourne Newsletter: August / September 2023
• Stambourne Newsletter: June / July 2023
• Stambourne Newsletter: April / May 2023
• Stambourne Newsletter: February / March 2023
• Stambourne Newsletter: December 2022 / January 2023
• Stambourne Newsletter: October / November 2022
• Stambourne Newsletter: August / September 2022
• Stambourne Newsletter: Platinum Jubilee Edition — June / July 2022
• Stambourne Newsletter: April / May 2022
• Stambourne Newsletter: February / March 2022
• Stambourne Newsletter: December 2021 / January 2022
• Stambourne Newsletter: October / November 2021
• Stambourne Newsletter: August / September 2021
• Stambourne Newsletter: June / July 2021
• Stambourne Newsletter: April / May 2021
• Stambourne Newsletter: February / March 2021
• Stambourne Newsletter: December 2020 / January 2021
• Stambourne Newsletter: October / November 2020
• Stambourne Newsletter: June / July 2020
• Stambourne Newsletter: April / May 2020
• Stambourne Newsletter: February / March 2020
• Stambourne Newsletter: December 2019 / January 2020
• Stambourne Newsletter: October / November 2019
• Stambourne Newsletter: August / September 2019

• Newsletter archive

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Photos

• Events
  • Christmas Quiz 2023
  • Stambourne Tractor Run 2023
  • Stambourne Coronation Picnic 2023
  • King Charles III Proclamation
  • Cream teas at the Church 2022
  • Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
  • VE Day and Scarecrows 2020
  • Fête and Scarecrows 2015
  • Winners of Scarecrows 2012
  • Scarecrows 2012
  • Jubilee lunch and exhibition2012
  • Royal Wedding 2011
  • Bonfire night 2010
  • Fêtes past years
• People
  • Old photos
• Structures
  • Then and now
  • Buildings
  • Building the Pavilion
  • Church bells
  • Old photos
• Through the seasons
  • Winter 2022/23
  • Spring and Summer 2021
  • Winter 2020/21
  • Snow 2003
  • Snow 1991
• Nature
  • Wildlife
  • Countryside
• Sport
  • Cricket match 1977
  • Cricket and football
  • Old photos
• More
  • Yarn bombing
  • Miscellaneous

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History

• Parish Church records
  • Baptisms
  • Banns of Marriage
  • Burials
  • Marriages
  • Inscriptions
• World War II
  • B-17 Crash, Birdbrook
  • Stirling Bomber Crash
  • Decoy Airfield
  • VE/VJ Day anniversary
• Recent history
  • The Krays Boxing
  • War memorial
  • The Daily Mirror 1913
  • The school’s last day
  • Electoral Roll 1966
  • Newspaper articles
  • Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
• Complete history
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Early history
    • Annex 1 – The entries in the Little Domesday Book for Stambourne = Stanburna, Toppesfield, & adjacent villages
    • Annex 2 – Analysis of LDB entries
    • Summary of these identifications
    • Annex 3 – Stoke Cartulary & Patronage
    • Annex 4 – Submission to Stambourne Parochial Church Council
    • Annex 5 – Authority of Bishop to Rededicate
    • Annex 6 – Bishop Edward’s Prayer and Homily
    • Annex 7 – Analysis of the sources which relate to the origin of our Dedication
  • 3. The people
    • Annex 1- The Saxons
    • Annex 2 – Index of mediaeval
    • Annex 3 – de Stanburns
    • Annex 4 – The de Greinvilles & their manor
    • Annex 5 – The de Mandevilles & Moone Hall
    • Annex 6 – The Manor of Stambourne Hall
    • Annex 7 – The Pevers
    • Annex 8 – The McWilliam name
    • Annex 8a – A simple chronology of the MacWilliams of Stambourne
    • Annex 8b – MacWilliam Chronology
    • Annex 9 – Index of correspondence on individual subjects & of historic names in Stambourne
    • Annex 10 – The frequency of names in the Church Registers
    • Annex 11 – Population of Stambourne
    • Annex 12 – Residents of Wesley End
    • Annex 12a – A facsimile of the 1881 Census for Wesley End
    • Annex 12b – Map of cottages in Wesley End in 1873
    • Annex 13 – Servicemen in the Kaiser’s War listed in the Halstead Gazette in December 1918
    • Annex 14 – Analysis of the Census of 1881
  • 4. The rise of non-conformity
    • Annex 1: The two Pannell Rectors and their family
    • Annex 2: The Spurgeon Family
    • Annex 3: The Pastors of the Congregational Church, formerly the Stambourne Meeting
    • Annex 4: The Recollections of Mrs King
    • Annex 5: The Extant Records Of Stambourne Congregational Church
    • Annex 6: Yearly occurrence of Births and deaths in the Congregational Membership
  • 5. The Bartholomew Act
  • 6. Lay governance & buildings
    • Annex 1: Hearth Tax Record List
    • Annex 2: Hearth Tax Listing 1664-67
    • Annex 3: Notes on the Hearth Tax Records
    • Annex 4: Land use in 1810
    • Annex 5: Table of Field Ownership & Use 1837
    • Annex 6: Stambourne Church of England School & the Frys 1861-1958
    • Annex 7: A Death from Diphtheria
    • Annex 8: List of the Deeds of the Post Mill
    • Discussion of the evidence
    • Annex 9: A Description of the Five Mills
    • Annex 10: An Old Photograph of the Post Mill
    • Annex 11: A Photograph of cottages at Dyers End
    • Annex 12: Old typescript on Parish Council
    • Annex 13: A facsimile of the Stambourne Newsletter 100th edition – 1994
    • Annex 14: A list of old place names
  • 7. The Parish Church
  • 8. Rectors and officers
  • 9. Other matters of interest
• Census records
  • Census records from 1841
  • Census records from 1851
  • Census records from 1861
  • Census records from 1901
• Stambourne map from 1777
• Stambourne Players

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Parish Council

• About the Parish Council
• Documents and meetings

• Minutes March 2024
• Minutes January 2024
• Minutes November 2023
• Minutes September 2023
• Minutes July 2023
• Signed Minutes Annual Parish Meeting 2022
• Minutes May 2023
• Minutes Annual Parish Meeting 2023
• Minutes Annual General Meeting 2023
• Minutes March 2023
• Minutes January 2023
• Minutes November 2022
• Minutes October 2022
• Minutes July 2022
• Minutes May 2022
• Minutes Annual Parish Meeting 2022
• Minutes Annual General Meeting 2022
• Minutes March 2022
• Minutes January 2022
• Minutes November 2021

• Documents archive
• Meeting dates for 2024
• Parish Council in 1894

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Local info

• Ordnance Survey maps
• Business Directory
• Useful links and addresses
• Neighbourhood Watch
• Superfast broadband

• Superfast broadband: January 2021 – Services live
• Superfast broadband: May 2020
• Superfast broadband: more Gigaclear delays
• Superfast broaband: Gigaclear are live
• Superfast broadband: yet another Gigaclear delay
• Superfast broadband: Gigaclear delayed yet again
• Superfast broadband: Gigaclear delayed again
• Superfast broadband: Gigaclear delayed
• Superfast broadband: November 2018
• Superfast broadband: October 2018
• County Broadband “FTTP”
• Gigaclear and County Broadband “FTTP”
• “Fibre broadband” via telephone lines
• Superfast broadband: good news!
• Superfast broadband: update and options
• Superfast broadband: another BT update
• Superfast broadband: BT update

• Notable residents
• Toppesfield Primary School
• Statistics

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