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Themes

List of articles in category Themes
Title
Old Charities of Hungerford
"The Queen, Duke of Lancaster"
6 Battalion R.E.M.E.
Aeroplanes on the Common
Ambulance Service
Archaeological Digs
Berkshire Yeomanry
Building Materials in Hungerford
Burgage Plots
Buried in Woollen
Caring for the Poor
Church House War Memorial
City Slicker
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Graves
Council Office Holders
Councils - Parish, RDC, Town
Crescent and Star
Crimes
Crimes by Maltsters
Dating Old Photographs of Hungerford
Domesday Manors
Early Manors
Eddington Post Office
Electoral Reform and Hungerford’s Electorate
Emigration to New Zealand, 1840
Enclosure
Georgian Hungerford
Hearth Tax
How Hungerford got its name
Hungerford 1900-1918
Hungerford's Market in the Middle Ages
Inflation and the Cost of Living
John Wesley's visits to Hungerford
Law and Order
Leverton
Lying-in Charity
Manor of Hungerford Engleford
Manorial History
Markets and Fairs
Meals on Wheels
Miscellaneous and unusual oddities!
National School
Non-conformism in Hungerford
Parish and Town Council
Parliamentary Reform
Plagues and Pandemics
Police
Postal Service
Prehistoric Hungerford
Roman Hungerford
Royal Charters
Rural Calendar
Rural Crafts
Telephone System
Temperance Movement
The Hungerford Poor, 1601-1929
The Iddy-Umpty Pierrots Concert Group
Timber-frame Buildings
Town Clocks
Tudor Hungerford
Victorian Post Boxes
War Memorial - 1st World War
War Memorial - 2nd World War
War Memorials
Wife Selling
Windows

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War Memorial - 1st World War

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Elizabethan Hungerford

Town and Manor

Trades and Occupations

Trade Directories

Fires and Firefighting

Inns and Alehouses

Medicine

Reminiscences

Schools

Transport

The Canal Wharf, Apr 2011

The Canal Wharf, Apr 2011

Hungerford, England, is a market town of about 5,800 people at the Berkshire / Wiltshire border.
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