Almost nothing is known about Wolston Windmill built on Lammas Hill. It was a tower mill with batter, staging and four common sails.
The excavation
A dig on Lammas Hill in 1950 ...
1 There is an earthwork mound marked on modern OS map.
2 The mound appears on OS 2nd edition as a circular feature within the Grove and with a series of ...
The site of a mound of unknown date. It is visible as an earthwork. The mound is situated 300m south west of St Margarets Church, Wolston.
2 A possible enclosure shows as a cropmark on an air photograph.
The site of a possible enclosure of unknown date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is situated 600m south west of St Margarets Church, Wolston.
1 An archaeological evaluation of land at the former Wolston High School involved background documentary research, geophysical survey and trial trenching. The work revealed only a single Bronze Age/early Iron ...
Findspot - during archaeological work a Bronze Age or early Iron Age pit, a light scatter of Romano-British pottery and remains of a medieval or post medieval field system were found at Wolston High School.
I used to play in the crater when I was a child, that must have been about the early ’50s. That crater was around the back of School Street, the ...
Two cards were given to me by my neighbour, they’re part of a large collection of postcards, of local people.They’re photos from the late 1800s, some of them.
These postcards refer ...
The story of R101 is one of the great disasters in British aviation history. A flagship for Britain’s airship programme, intended to make the Empire more accessible, the ship met ...
Brother and sister Arthur and Doris Berry ran the post office and bakery. Doris ran the post office and Arthur ran the bakery, and made his own bread in the ...
These are a collection of May Day photos from May Day celebrations in Wolston. Many contain photos of my mum (Betty Owen was Orton), auntie (Eva Bloxham), over several different ...
1 A large flake was recovered during fieldwalking as part of the evaluation at Wolston Fields Farm. It may have been reworked in a later period.
Findspot - a flint flake of Palaeolithic date was found 500m east of Ryton on Dunsmore. The flint flake might have been re-worked at a later date.
1 A number of flints of apparently Neolithic date were recovered during fieldwalking as part of the evaluation at Wolston Fields Farm.
Findspot - a Neolithic flint scatter of flint flakes and tools was found during a field walking exercise 500m east of Ryton on Dunsmore.
1 A number of flints of apparently Bronze Age date were recovered during fieldwalking as part of the evaluation at Wolston Fields Farm.
2 Bronze Age date confirmed.
Findspot - several flint artefacts of Bronze Age date were found during a field walking exercise 500m east of Ryton on Dunsmore.
1 Gravel pit marked on 1886 map.
The site of a pit from which gravel was extracted during the Imperial period. It was marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886, and was situated 100m northwest of the War Memorial, Wolston.
1 Clay pit SW of Barn Cottage Farm marked on 1886 map.
The site of a clay pit from which clay was extracted during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
1 Find made with a metal detector in 1987. A late prehistoric gold stater in good condition. Weight 5.77g. This is an example of British B, a forerunner of the ...
Findspot - an Iron Age coin known as a stater was found 800m south east of Bretford.
2 The cropmark of a possible ring ditch has been identified from air photographs.
3 The circular cropmarks was mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project.
A possible ring ditch of Neolithic or Bronze Age date is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is situated 600m south east of Wolston.
2 Several possible linear cropmark features can be identified on an air photograph. These may be geological in origin.
3 Reintrepretation of 1 suggests a single linear feature with a ...
Several linear features of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs, representing ?geological features and possibly part of an enclosure. They are situated 1km north east of The Holdings.
Wolston has flooded regularly over the years. These residents recall their memories of them.
I’ve lived in Wolston for 82 years, and in the same house since 1936. I can remember the 1937 coronation, they had like a big fair or celebration in the ...
I’ve lived in Wolston for 82 years, and in the same house since 1936. The village has got a lot bigger, but there are less shops. One time there were ...
This was the home of the Wilcox family who, I understand, came from a house adjoining Brandon Hall, which has since been demolished to make room for the hotel car ...
A local schoolmaster Mr Hassall mentions this station in his school logbook:
Jan. 15th 1892. The new books for the library to the worth of £4. 10. 0 arrived at Brandon ...
