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- First meeting of 2023
- Christmas meal
- Would I lie to you?
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- Fish and chips supper
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- Stambourne Ladies Group Meet-up
- Christmas meal
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- Afternoon tea at Debden Barns
- Fish and chips supper
- Day out at Helmingham Hall Gardens
- Post-lockdown celebration in Stambourne
Newsletter
- Stambourne Newsletter: October / November 2024
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- Stambourne Newsletter: Platinum Jubilee Edition — June / July 2022
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- Stambourne Newsletter: December 2021 / January 2022
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- Stambourne Newsletter: December 2019 / January 2020
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- 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
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- Through the seasons
- Nature
- Sport
- More
History
- Parish Church records
- World War II
- Recent history
- 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
- Stambourne map from 1777
- Stambourne Players
Parish Council
- Minutes September 2024
- Minutes July 2024
- Minutes May 2024
- Annual Parish Meeting 2024
- 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 2024
- Minutes March 2023
- Minutes January 2023
- Minutes November 2022
- Minutes October 2022
- Minutes July 2022
- Minutes May 2022
- Minutes Annual Parish Meeting 2022
Local info
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- 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