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1. Town and Manor: (Category); Created on 15 April 2015
2. Town and Manor Archives (2): (Archives); Summary: This bundle of papers, currently in a blue box file held by the Town and Manor, includes copies and translations of a large number of documents (deeds, charters, articles) relating to the ...; Created on 30 August 2019
3. Town and Manor Photo Gallery: (Archives); You are in [Archives] [Town & Manor Archives] [Town and Manor Photo Archives] A collection of photographs kindly given to the Virtual Museum by Robert James, October 2016. - St. Lawrence's Church, ...; Created on 05 October 2016
4. Town and Manor Archives: (Archives); You are in [Archives] [Town and Manor Archives] This article includes links to a gradually expanding collection of scanned documents and photographs collected by Robert James over the past 50 years. ...; Created on 22 August 2016
5. The Town and Manor today: (Town and Manor); You are in [Themes] [Town and Manor] [The Town and Manor today] The Town and Manor of Hungerford and the Liberty of Sanden Fee [Town & Manor for short] is a registered charity, under a scheme dating ...; Created on 20 April 2015
6. Town and Manor: (Town and Manor); You are in [Themes] [Town and Manor] What is the Town & Manor? The Town and Manor of Hungerford is a property-managing Registered Charity responsible for a large estate in and around Hungerford, ...; Created on 15 April 2015
7. Constables of Town and Manor: (People); You are in [People] [Constables of Town & Manor] In many ways, the organisation of the Town and Manor of Hungerford has remained little changed over the past 400 years, since it came under the management ...; Created on 09 April 2015
8. Parish and Town Council: (Themes); You are in [Themes] [Parish and Town Council] Hungerford Parish Council was formed in 1894, and was replaced by the Town Council in 1974. In 1994 a booklet was written to celebrate 100 years of Local ...; Created on 20 April 2015
9. Parish and Manor: (Elizabethan Hungerford); ... who was appointed by the Liberty of Hungerford at the Hocktide Court, was in effect the principal executive authority in the town, but it is more difficult to say what authority he had throughout the whole ...; Created on 14 April 2015
10. Crown, Gentry and Town: (Elizabethan Hungerford); You are in [Themes] [Elizabethan Hungerford] [Crown, Gentry and Town] Back to [Survey of Christian Names] Rich noblemen passing through with their carriages, servants and hangers-on would have been ...; Created on 14 April 2015
11. Standen Manor: (Great Estates); You are in [Places] [Great Estates] [Standen Manor] The house today: Standen Manor (in earlier days also known as South Standen or Standen Hussey) is an extremely attractive, Grade II Listed country ...; Created on 13 April 2015
12. Kennet Valley Wetland Reserve: (Town and Manor); You are in [Places] [Kennet Valley Wetland Reserve] Summary: In 2018 The Town and Manor bought 16 hectares (40 acres) of historic wetland meadow on the north-western edge of Hungerford immediately ...; Created on 20 April 2023
13. Shefford Woodlands and its people: (Family History); ... thirty years of farm diaries written by Jim Langford’s father Reginald and Jim during the years 1930 to 1980. Jim Langford lived at Newtown Lodge Farm, Shefford Woodlands, from 1935 until his death in ...; Created on 19 January 2023
14. Shefford Woodlands: (Family History); ... Sebastian Salas, his wife Maria and sons Santi, Marcos and Martin, went to visit him at Newtown Lodge, Shefford Woodlands. When they were there, he looked out the window at the boys playing on the lawn ...; Created on 18 January 2023
15. Combe as a manor of Bec in the Middle Ages: (Places); ... the county town or to the hundred centre. All the virgate-holders shall do the same customs and works and that shall be a condition for each of them. They must also do all boons for the lord both inside ...; Created on 06 February 2022
16. Combe Gibbet and gallows - myth and background: (Places); ... miles south of Hungerford, but clearly visible from the town in fine weather. It marks the boundary between Inkpen and Combe, and stands in the middle of a neolithic long-barrow. Local folklore is that ...; Created on 05 February 2022
17. Combe and its landless cottagers: (Places); ... a town allotment today, and about half the normal allotment measure at the time. It was also agreed then that each labourer was to pay 1s a year for this land. This would certainly confirm that they were ...; Created on 05 February 2022
18. Combe and the Abbey of Bec-Hellouin: (Places); ... and as long as land remains to be sown he must sow or find a sower to sow, and shall have food for it. He shall also have food if he goes on the lord’s business to nearby markets or to the county town ...; Created on 04 February 2022
19. Manor of Hungerford Engleford: (Themes); ... the town and borough, and our Park in Hungerford, the Fee of Sanden, for fealty and twenty marks yearly". The manors of both Hungerford and Hungerford Engleford were again held by the same lord, one ...; Created on 20 January 2021
20. Plagues and Pandemics: (Themes); ... on Hungerford, but there are pointers. Hungerford is a good example of a “planted town” with its north-south “alta strata” (now High Street) and its back lanes (now Fairview Road and Prospect Road), with ...; Created on 02 December 2020

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