Henry Hewitt owned Clifton Mill from 1848 to 1869. During that time he may have poisoned his wife, himself and a large number of the local villagers. This was done ...
There does not appear to be a mill here in the Domesday survey of 1086 although there were two in nearby Clifton on Dunsmore. The old photograph shows a railway ...
The mill as you see it was probably built in the 18th century, but on the site of earlier mills. A mill at Hampton Lucy is even mentioned in the ...
I could find no sign of a mill at Blackdown in the Domesday book, though it may be quite ancient. Bertie Greatheed writes in his diary for August 12th 1807: ...
The two shocking fatalities at Harbury on Thursday and Friday last week, threw the usually quiet village into a state of great excitement.
The first refers to George Frederick Verney (27) ...