Shute Barton Manor Shute Gatehouse (Photos can be enlarged by left clicking on them once and then left click again for full screen) Adjacent to St. Michael’s Church is the ancient manor house of the Parish of Shute, built in 1380 by Sir William Bonneville, a Norman from Bonneville, in Beauce, near Chartres. It remained […]
Category: Local History
Hall History
Umborne Hall is a green painted Nissen Hut, invented in 1919 by Lt. Col. Peter Norman Nissen (1871-1930) of the British Royal Engineers. In 1941, the Americans built and used huts called Quonset Huts, which were an adaptation of the Nissen Hut. These type of huts were used as makeshift housing for American soldiers and […]
Tithe Origins
The Origins of Tithe The tithe was an annual payment of an agreed proportion (originally one-tenth) of the yearly produce of the land, which was payable by parishioners to the parish church, to support it and its clergyman. Originally tithes were paid ‘in kind’ (wool, milk, honey, fish, barley etc) and were payable on 3 […]
Tithe Maps
Take a look at the valley (and a little beyond) as it was around 1840 If you live in a house which is over 150 years old, you might like to look at the following links to find out about your house in 1840 which is when the tithe maps were drawn up. First find […]
Shute Church
The Parish Church of Shute Formerly the Ancient Chapel of St. Michael (photos can be enlarged by left clicking on them once) Shute Church is an ancient and beautiful small building. It is believed that there may have been a Saxon Church on this site, but as there are no written records to confirm this […]
Joan’s Wedding
The romantic wartime story of Joan’s wedding And how a farm in the Umborne Valley became a sanctuary for people being bombed in the cities As told by Joan Dommett My story might never have had a happy ending had I not one day called into the coal depot at Colyton Station to pay a […]
Hall History
Village Hall History (From a painting by Nora Baker currently hanging in the new hall) A little bit of history about the Umborne Village Hall Umborne Hall is a green painted Nissen Hut, invented in 1919 by Lt. Col. Peter Norman Nissen (1871-1930) of the British Royal Engineers. In 1941, the Americans built and used […]
German Bomber
The day the Germans crashed on Umborne How a bomber was brought down on Eight Shillings Field and scattered its crew around the countryside White cloud obscured the German bomber from the ground, so its vulnerability to attack from a fighter of the resurgent RAF was from above. Realising that his aircraft would be silhouetted […]
