This is a poem written in the Dorset dialect by William Barnes. It is reported to have been inspired by the visit to the Great Exhibition in 1851 of Job […]
John Gadd, our accessions officer, is a local historian and writer. He has published several short stories in Fontmell Magna`s monthly magazine “ The Gossip Tree” As this periodical is […]
A few years ago a supplementary meeting was organized by the Fontmell Society at which parishioners were invited to speak on their memories of people and events. Some notes were […]
Manorial Court Records At the Dorset History Centre can be found 4 books under the reference D/GLY/B/1,2,3,4. These are the records of the court of the Hundred of Sixpenny and […]
The first part of this poem has already appeared in the article Fontmell Poems – Grave and Gay. The full version of the poem written by Jeany Poulsen during the […]
Names on the War Memorial The War Memorial In 1919, a committee was set up to look into the design and cost of a Memorial Cross. At a meeting with […]
FONTMELL POEMS – GRAVE AND GAY The Gossip Tree, established in 1994 and now in its 180th edition, has always been more than just a monthly village newsletter, as it […]
Kenneth Watkins (1909-1996) founded the Woodland Trust in 1972 in Devon where he had built up a successful agricultural machinery business. At the time there was no conservation body to […]
INTRODUCTION During 2006 our website received many enquiries about Fontmell antecedents, and several from descendents of the Still family. With their approval, we put them in touch with each other. […]
In a previous article we looked at the introduction and development of land enclosures in Fontmell Magna. There is, however, another aspect of agricultural economics that required legislation in the […]
