A short history of Widcombe

Reference Number

PP/2253

Level of Description

Item

Title

A short history of Widcombe

Creator(s) & Administrative History

Widcombe Association/Widcombe and Lyncombe Local History Society: Author

Date

2010

Extent

Pages: 24

Description

Print-outs from the online Widcombe Association site including pamphlets compiled by the Widcombe and Lyncombe Local History Society on the churches of St. Thomas a Becket, Widcombe and St. Mark's, Lyncombe, the Baptist Burial ground at Lyncombe Hill, the pre-1834 Poor Houses of Lyncombe and Widcombe, war memorials within the two parishes, the cemeteries at Smallcombe Vale, the flood of 1828 and the Roman Catholic cemetery at Perrymead

Subject

Floods
Graveyards
Poor law
Religious history
War memorials