St Laurence Room excavation report
The detailed report has now been published: Carina Summerfield-Hill with a contribution by Paul Blinkhorn, "Excavation at St Laurence's Meeting Room, Market Square, Winslow", Records of Bucks 53 (2013), 93-101.
5 late Anglo-Saxon / early medieval burials (one has a radiocarbon date of 900-1160) indicate that the boundary of the churchyard was further south than now. Two parallel ditches mark property boundaries showing that the north side of the Market Square encroached on the churchyard. Two burials from the late medieval / early post-medieval period (radiocarbon date 1400-1620) were also found: either unconsecrated burials or a temporary re-extension of the churchyard. There were 9 sherds of 13th-/14th-century pottery, and a cast copper alloy buckle of c.1350-1450.
The article can be downloaded from the Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd website. |
 New publication:
Winslow in 1556: The survey of the manor
BY DAVID NOY
The manor of Winslow, including Granborough and Little Horwood, was surveyed in 1556, probably to maximise
revenue for the Crown. Winslow was in royal ownership
after the dissolution of St Albans Abbey, and in 1556 had
an absentee landlord who owed the Crown money and a
resident bailiff. Then the surveyor Thomas Gedge came to call.
This book paints a picture of Winslow in 1556: its people,
its properties, their occupations, their families and
relationships, their petty crimes and long-term feuds.
Putting together the 1556 Survey with other historical
documents – wills, inventories, parish registers, legal
records, David Noy develops a panorama of Winslow's
economic, social and religious life in the mid-16th century.
With the text of the Survey itself, translated and published here for the first time.
160 pages, annotated and with indexes of People and Places. £5 (plus £1 postage). SPECIAL OFFER: £1 off for Winslow History Project helpers and Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society members. You can order the book from BAS using this form, or it is available from David Noy, 16 McLernon Way, Winslow, email: d.noy @ btinternet.com, tel: 01296 711683. It will also be on sale at the book launch on 10 August: see below. And at the Old Gaol and Buckingham Bookshop. |
| The newly formed Winslow Archaeological & Historical Society would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in archaeological field work locally. Please download their leaflet. |
| 5 December 2013 |
Will and inventory of Edward Tomlin carrier, 1681 (proved 1685)
Will of Mary Bigg, widow, 1682/3
Will of Frances Willmott, widow, 1685/6
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| 4 December |
Additions to Rose & Crown (smallpox outbreak in 1850), The Plough (information about closure in 1909), The Bull (bankrupt landlord Saul Saull), The King's Head (bankrupt landlord James Brooks), Station Road (building of the Gas Works, 1880)
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| 1 December |
New page: The Plough Inn
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| 29 November |
New page: Salvation Army (1888-92): their short-lived attempt to establish a base in Winslow.
Distributions to the poor (1686-9): lists of recipients: these are mainly the names of people who don't appear in any other documents
Inventory of Ellen Wiatt of Granborough, 1671/2
Will and inventory of Susan Grant, 1682 (proved 1684): the end of the Grant family in Winslow |
| 22-4 November |
Distributions to the poor (1680 & 1684): lists of recipients
Coach accident, 1817: article by Ed Grimsdale
Balloon landing (1884)
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| 20-1 November |
Will and inventory of Peter Stutsbury, shoemaker, 1680/1
Will and inventory of Hugh Stutsbury, grocer, 1682
Will and inventory of Thomas Deely the elder, 1685/6 (proved 1687)
Winslow Provident Society (1844-c.1904)
Winslow Pupil Teachers' Centre (1904-7): articles by Ed Grimsdale |
| 17 November |
Will and inventory of Ellen Bence, 1679
Will and inventory of Andrew Stutsbury, cordwainer / shoemaker, 1679
Boer War disrupts Winslow's international blackberry trade (1900)
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| 14-15 November |
Will and inventory of Thomas Robinson, yeoman, 1677
Will and inventory of John Hogson the elder, 1679
Will and inventory of Thomas Chandler, yeoman, 1680
Will and inventory of Joan Kirby, 1681/2 (proved 1686)
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| 9-10 November |
Bastardy Cases 1680-1714: including a surgeon who ran away after getting a woman pregnant
Will and inventory of Richard Udding, husbandman, 1678
Additions to Keach's Meeting House |
| 7-8 November |
Inventory of Richard Shelton, 1672
Inventory and administration of Raynes Lowe, 1675
Inventory of John Darnell, carpenter, 1689
Additions to Alehouse recognizances 1753: Winslow had 25 pubs
Overseers accounts of poor relief 1679-1715: names of overseers and annual totals paid in poor relief; names of churchwardens |
| 1-2 November |
Inventory of James West, apothecary, 1687/8
Some information about Ferdinando Whichello, hairdresser |
| 29-31 October |
Administration of Edward Ping, 1665 (second bond issued 1680)
Inventory and administration of Robert Shelton, cooper, 1671: a fairly impoverished member of one of the oldest Winslow families, married to a member of one of the others, Mary Glenister
Will and inventory of Bennet Glenister, 1673 |
| 26 October |
Inventory of Francis Shaw, 1686/7
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| 23-4 October |
Additions to The Bank, including the date of Winslow's first bank
New aerial photos (1931) of Western House and
the Station
Inventory and administration of William Granborow, 1661
Will and inventory of Alice Kenestone, widow, 1672 (proved 1675) |
| 20 October |
Inventory and administration of Samuel Dix, vicar, 1682 + will and inventory of his widow Sarah, 1684-5. For someone who held several ecclesiastical livings at the same time, Samuel left very little.
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| 18 October |
Additions to Daniel Gyles and the Old Crown |
| 12-13 October 2013 |
Administration of Seth Mason, 1622/3
Archdeaconry Court records, 1639
Administration of Robert Benbow, 1640
Names of churchwardens, 1660s-70s
Additions to Inventory and administration of Daniel Beadell, barber, 1669 (granted 1670) and Inventories of John Beadles, 1670, and obligation of Anne Beadles: John proves to have been Daniel's father, and there was a dispute within the family after John's death.
Photos added to Station Road, Arthur Clear, Rands Farm |
| 10 October |
Inventory and administration of Roger Atwood, baker, 1670-1: he seems to have occupied at least part of The Bell
Highway robbery: Winslow men robbed while returning from Aylesbury market (1754)
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| 4-5 October |
Inventory of William Tomlin of Shipton, labourer, 1669: one of the last descendants of Winslow's leading 15th-century family
Will and inventory of Margaret Stutsbury, 1669 (proved 1670): an unmarried woman living in her brother's household
Inventory and administration of Daniel Beadell, barber, 1669 (granted 1670)
Census: we now have the population figures for Winslow from every census from 1801 to 2011. The population is 4 times bigger now than in 1801, but there are almost 9 times as many houses.
Extracts from the records of the Court of the Archdeacon of St Albans, 1636-9. |
| 2 October |
New page: The Bank (19 Market Square)
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| 26-7 September |
Inventory of John Malens, baker, 1661
Inventories of John Beadles, 1670, and obligation of Anne Beadles
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| 24 September |
Will and inventory of John Miller, 1673
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| 20 September |
Inventory and administration of Nicholas Mitchell, 1665
Inventory and administration of William Hogson, 1666
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| 18 September |
Inventory of Jane Bigg, 1665
Inventory of Mathew Bishop, 1689: the richest man in Winslow, he seems to have been a wholesale dealer in fabrics
Winslow Hall Asylum (1865-8): Ed Grimsdale has discovered a previously forgotten episode in Winslow Hall's chequered history
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| 5 September |
Inventory of Henry Graunt, 1665
Will and inventory of Robert Udden, butcher, 1658 (proved 1661)
Administration of Joan Allenson, 1681
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| 3 September |
Additions from the St Albans Archdeaconry Court records for 1636 to Biggin (a dispute about a pew in Granborough church) and Richard Snow's will.
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| 1 September |
Church Houses: the two houses in the north-west corner of the Market Square, eventually replaced by the St Laurence Room and part of the Bank.
Photos / images added to Keach's Meeting House, Winslow Hall,
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| 29 August |
Inventory of Hugh Stevens, 1661, and obligation of Anne Stevens
Will of Elizabeth Gyles, widow, 1718
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| 27 August |
Russo-Japanese War: Winslow supports Japan (1904)
Will of John Malens, baker, 1661
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| 21-22 August |
Collection at Winslow for the injured of the Battle of Waterloo
More photos of the fire of 1933
Will and inventory of Elizabeth Foster, widow, 1666/7 (proved 1667)
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| 18-19 August |
Will of William Gyles, woollen draper, 1713 (proved 1714): his business extended to Stony Stratford and Leighton Buzzard
Additions to William Ovitts (1743-1830)
More stories about Winslow soldiers in the Boer War
J.O. Scott's drawings for the restoration of the Church, 1884
Addition to Electoral Register 1784: we now know who everyone voted for (mainly Earl Verney) |
| 14-15 August |
Will of William Gyles the elder, draper, 1702: Winslow's leading Baptist
Will of William Gyles they younger, woollen draper, 1713
Will of Daniel Gyles, linen draper, 1746 (proved 1750)
Inventory of Thomas Branford, 1668
New page: Keach's Meeting House and the early Baptists in Winslow |
| 10 August |
Will and inventory of Thomas Kirby, shoemaker, 1664 (proved 1667)
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| 8 August |
Will and Inventory of Ursula Pleasted, widow, 1659 (proved 1661)
Will of Jane Grasham, spinster, 1671
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| 6 August |
Church: Royal Commission for Historic Monuments report, 1911 (PDF file, © English Heritage)
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| 4 August |
Additions to Church (with thanks to David Critchley):
article about dating, diagrams and plan showing dating sequence, drawing of the church before the 1883 restoration |
| 1 August |
Inventory and accounts of Charles Harris, apothecary, 1675
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| 31 July |
Will of Michael Walker, yeoman, 1651 (proved 1658)
Will of William Wyatt the elder, butcher, 1658
New page: Old Bowling Green and Walled Garden
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| 27 July |
Will of Nicholas Brinsall, shoemaker, 1662:
he was aged 85, outlived most of his children, and seems to have been a 17th-century equivalent of Wonga with small loans to many people in and around Winslow |
| 25 July |
Sale of John Williams' carrier's business, 1800
Household sale by Joseph Dudley, 1803
Sale of Augustine Seaton's butcher's shop in Horn Street, 1803
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| 17 July |
Will of Rebecca Gerard, nee Fige, 1663: she mentions many of her relatives including Figes and Lowndes
Will of Richard Gardner, tallow chandler, 1676/7 (proved 1678)
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| 4-5 July |
The Royal Oak: Winslow's most notorious pub until it closed in 1908
Will of William Glenister of Shipton, weaver, 1652/3 (proved 1654/5)
Will of William Lowndes, 1654 (proved 1657) - grandfather of the builder of Winslow Hall
Will and inventory of Nicholas Bigg, 1682/3
Additions to The Crown
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| 30 June |
Will and inventory of William Norman the elder of Shipton, 1658 (proved 1661)
Inventory of Thomas Miller of Shipton and obligation of Dorothy Miller, 1661
Inspector Bond (b.1849)
George Mayne: Return of a Crimean War hero (1856)
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| 27 June |
Will and inventory of Richard Dingley, labourer, 1658 (proved 1663)
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| 20 June |
Will and inventory of Richard Glenister of Shipton, yeoman, 1658 (proved 1661)
Inventory of Peter Hughes, 1688
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| 16 June |
Enclosure: list of old closes in Winslow which existed before the Enclosure Award of 1767, mainly near Sheep Street, Horn Street, Western Lane and Vicarage Road
Addition to Dr Lovell's School |
| 14 June |
Will of John Sheffeild, 1661
New page: King's Head (formerly Sow and Pigs) - now 26 High Street |
| 9 June |
Inventory of Margaret Chinnal, 1641
Bankruptcy of John Turpin, 1813
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| 7 June |
Will of John Stutsberie, shoemaker, 1643 (proved 1647)
Inventory of John Snowe of Shipton, 1643 (presented 1645)
Will and Inventory of Dorothy Miller of Shipton, 1687/8
Will of William Eden, 1689
Mrs Spilsbury's drops (1796): William Turner of Winslow writes to the newspapers about his amazing cure
1798 Voluntary contributions for the war against France: A list of over 70 donors, including many women who don't get recorded in other lists
Additions to The George, Burnham family, Turnpike |
