The Blandford Colonisation Society
There has never been a good time to be born poor but the early to mid nineteenth century was one of the worst.
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One Hundred Years in Child Okeford -Part 2
Carrying on from last month’s extract from “One Hundred Years in Child Okeford”:
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One Hundred Years in Child Okeford 1883 – 1983
One of the first items The Archive was given to copy and preserve digitally was a booklet entitled “One Hundred
Child Okeford at the time of Domesday
“And so the English groaned aloud for their lost liberty and plotted ceaselessly to find some way of shaking off a yoke that was so intolerable and unaccustomed” 1
There are few points in history where we can get anything like an accurate assessment of the size
Who was Who in Child Okeford-1931.
In January and February we copied a “List
Businesses in Child Okeford in 1920
Our first post from the archive is a list of businesses in Child Okeford in the late 1920’s. The original is in our archive but we have no idea when this was produced or by whom but a comparison
The King takes on Child Okeford
The King vs the Inhabitants of Child Okeford -William IV takes on Child Okeford.
“Welcome to the village, have you moved far to come here? Shillingstone? Not far then. Before you move in though could I see your Settlement certificate? You haven’t got one? Oh dear
What’s in a Name.
The Village Name
The first recorded name of the village is in the Domesday book [1086] when it was known simply as Ackford. [The “Exeter” version of Domesday calls us Ackforda”.
The origin
The History of Hey Day
Child Okeford’s “Hey Day” is the annual village fete.
Where does “Hey Day” originate? Is it one word or two? Sadly we have no idea. No one is able to tell us nor can we find any clue from village records. The