Chapter
or Section
The
Domesday Book of 1086
A
History of North Aston
In
the Beginning (Prehistory, the Roman occupation
and the arrival of the Normans)
Taking Shape (A village is established)
Middle Age (Disease, war and famine in medieval
times)
Things that go Bump in the Night (The first
recorded poltergeist in England)
Interesting Times (The first ‘Golden
Age’)
Shaping the Future (Revolution in the fields,
and across the land)
Progress and Poverty (The ‘outside
world’ begins to encroach)
Musical Associations (Bernard Gates of North
Aston and Handel)
Dr T. S. Dupuis (Organist to the Chapel
Royal)
A Centre for the Arts and Science (The arrival
of the Bowles family)
Changing the Face of Agriculture (Reforms
and new ideas)
Oldfield Bowles Remembered (Extracts from
the diary of Joseph Farington RA)
The Canker in the Rose (A tainted source
of wealth)
All Bowled Out (The link with the Bowles
family finally ends)
Jackson’s Oxford Journal (Extracts
from the 18th century)
Swing Time (The Captain and his riots)
Making Census of the Past (The 1851 Census
of Oxfordshire)
A Thirst for Learning (Recreation and schooling
in a rural community)
Goodbye Bowles, Hello Foster-Melliar (A
new name bears influence on the village)
John Dove (Editor of the ‘Round Table’
Commonwealth review)
North
Aston for Sale (The estate comes under the
hammer)
Into the Twentieth Century
Lords
of the Manor (A listing from 1086
to the present day)
The
Church of St. Mary (A description
of North Aston church)
North Aston Clergy (A listing of Vicars
from 1228 to the present day)
Notes on the Bells (A ring of six)
Roll of Honour1914-18 (Those of the parish who
gave their lives)
Serving in HM Forces 1939-1945 (Residents of
the village who fought in WW2)
The Way we Were (Old photographs
of North Aston)
The School, The Hall, The Manor House, The Village
and Post Office
The
Fox (The earliest surviving farmhouse
and a former inn)
The Fountain (The Gift of
William Foster-Melliar in 1863)
The Old Bakery and The Pavilion
(Social gatherings arise from enterprise)
The North Aston Cricket Club
(One hundred years of village cricket)
The North Aston News (Excerpts
from past issues of the village newsletter)
Lower
House, Soldiers on the Land, May Day, Oldest
and Youngest, Good
Women and Civil Defence, Coronation Day 1953,
Tom West (1901-1990),
The Travelling Taylors, Somerton Road, The Gardners.
Recollections of Life in North Aston
Personal
Memories
That’s
Going Back a Bit (Reminiscences from
Ted Short)
The Sykes Family of Dane Hill
(Les Sykes recounts a family history)
A Vanished World (Memories
of North Aston by Phoebe Hichens / Pearce)
Growing up in North Aston (The
recollections of Norman West)
In Conversation (Joyce Morley
and Mary Hoare with Stephen Rees)
North Aston in the 1920s (Ivy
Bowen recalls life eighty years ago)
Percy Short and Will ‘Curly’
Whitehead (Remembered by Deirdre
Oakley)
An
Industrial Heritage (Compiled by
Lucy Bolton and Ron Knight)
Lucy Bolton Recalls (Personal
recollections)
The Colonel’s Escape (Evading
the Germans, Summer 1940)
Colonel Anthony Donnithorne Taylor
(“ADT”, who died in 1985)
Jeremy Taylor, in Conversation
(with Stephen Rees)
The Second World War and After
(Mark Hichens and The Hall)
Three Score Years and Then . . . (Clive
Busby, farm manager)
The
North Aston Siege (July 1978, compiled
by Marcus Potts)
Recalling the Siege (with
Jane Durnin and Stephen Rees)
Breadfruit Bligh (North Aston’s
links with a mutinous past)
Locomotive 7917 (A village
in steam)
Nature
Notes
The Natural History of North Aston
(Ron Knight and Brian Hall)
Birds (1963-1966 and 2000
survey results compiled by Ron Knight and Brian
Hall)
Plant Species of North Aston
(James Greenwood)
Maps
and References
Aerial photograph of the village, circa 1970
North Aston footpaths (based upon OCC definitive
listing, 1999)
Field Names in the Parish of North Aston
The Heart of the Village, circa 1907
The North Aston Golf Course
Index (including some genealogical
information)
Sources, bibliography, acknowledgements and thanks
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