Peldon from Mersea Museum

Peldon

Peldon History Project is working to record the history of the village of Peldon.

Click on a link below to see pictures, documents, or more information on the Project.

Peldon

Pictures

Documents, cuttings

Peldon's Early History

	Peldon's Archaeology


	Domesday Book


	Early Peldon wills and documents transcribed


	Comyn's Charity


	Peldon, John Ball, and the Peasants' Revolt


	Peldon and Henry VIII


	Sequestration of Rector of Peldon 1643


	The Great Plague of Colchester and London


	Essex during The French Wars. The fear of invasion


	Peldon in 1831 - Wright and Bartlett


	A description of Peldon in 1848

Peldon Parish Church

	Peldon Church Histories


	Peldon Church Bells


	"Burial in Wool" in early Parish Records


	Married Clergy in the reign of Mary and Elizabeth

Peldon Houses and Buildings

	Peldon Methodist Chapel


	Methodism in Peldon by Ben Cudmore


	Peldon Village Hall


	Peldon School


	Peldon Rectories


	Pyefleet House


	Peldon Hall Cottage - Chris and Archie Moore


	Barnards Cottages


	Honeysuckle Cottage


	Malting Farm and Rolls Farm - Linda Starling


	The Mystery of Honor Villa and Goings Cottages


	Pete Hall - a two part history by Simon Eagle


	Sleyes

Peldon Rose

	Pullens of the Peldon Rose


	Sparrow Pie at the Peldon Rose


	Iris and Charles Ollivant at the Peldon Rose

World Wars

	Peldon in WW1 from School Log Books


	Evacuees come to Peldon


	Preparations for a German Invasion


	Auxiliary Units in WW2


	Farmers' evictions in WW2, and the Peldon Protest


	Women's Land Army in Essex in WW2


	The War Years - Peldon. By Phyllis Day nee Wilson


	David Wilson Merchant Seaman - The POWs Story


	Charlton Cyril Mason died 24 February 1944


	John Scales RAFVR died 20 December 1943 See also John Scales Bomber Pilot by Geoff Gonella

1953 Flood

Peldon and the Great Colchester Earthquake of 1884

Abberton Reservoir - what was there before

Peldon's Poor and the Poorhouse

Peldon and the influenza pandemic 1918-19

Captain Swing Peldon Wages Riot

Peldon and the National Agricultural Labourers' Union

The Mills and Millers of Peldon

Peldon Stores - Dansies

Peldon Post Offices

Peldon's Carriers and early bus services

Recollections of the Village Blacksmith *** NEW ***

Peldon Neigbourhood News

Peldon Church Histories

Essex Cheese

The Foresters of Mersea and Peldon

Peldon Art Group

Peldon Tug of War Team

Peldon Service Station

Mosquitos

The Peldon Vulture

Magic Lantern Shows in Peldon

Peldon People

	Alfred George Baldwin died 24 March 1918


	The Beans of Peldon Hall


	John Linnett Clarke The Coans Private Dines died 4 November 1918 The Fenns of Lower Road Ernest Frederick Gladwell 1890-1915 Herbert Harrison - killed in the First Boer War The Hyams - Shopkeepers of Peldon Mark Hyam - 1889 - 1990 The Mallett Family; Sailors and Shopkeeper Martin Family of Moor Farm Mason Family of Hill House Percy William Mortlock died 14 March 1915 Nymann the Dane Harry Ponder 1882 - 1979 George Scales - farmer John Milgate The Miller Family Daniel Rich - a Peldon smuggler Harry and Angela Smith - married 1875 The Wooldridge Family of Kemps Farm Dora Banfield The Land Girl's Story Geoffrey Wooldridge Spring Wyncoll The Whiting Family of Peldon Ivor Walklett - Ginetta Cars

And straying over the border...

	Bernard Ratcliffe of Little Wigborough


	A farmworker in Fingringhoe in 1944 by Daphne Allen

Peldon History Project

Mission, topics covered, contacts, background

S.C. White & Co. Peldon shop in the 1920s

Peldon Rose around 1905

Lost - Peldon Hole, now under the Reservoir

St Mary's Church, Peldon circa 1911

Peldon Plough

Blacksmith Hill c1911