The Millennium History of Finmere Published by: Finmere and Little Tingewick Historical Society, Finmere, Oxfordshire © Finmere and Little Tingewick Historical Society 2001 Copyright of illustrations and photographs remains with the originators and owners. Our book captures the knowledge of generations and we wish to encourage its use for further research. We permit copying of parts of this book for personal research or educational use. A fully-formatted version can also be downloaded from our website, homepage.virgin.net/finmere.history. For permission for commercial or other use, please contact the Society (email:
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[email protected] ISBN 0 9533253 1 8 Contents Foreword 1 Day, Night and Sunday Schools 64 The Millennium History 3 The Thirty-Nine Teachers 64 A Millennium of Village History 3 Ashwell’s School 65 Contributors 5 Through Two Wars to Closure 70 Finmere and Little Tingewick 7 The Closure of the School 71 The Meaning of AUniqueFinmere and Boldly Revolutionaryand School Tingewick873 The Village in the Nineteenth Century 9 The New School 73 Palmer’s Finmere 9 The Pleasure of School Life 75 The 1851 Census 12 The Village Landscape 79 Palmer’s Later Years 13 The Village Pond 79 St Michael’s Church 15 The Commemorative Trees 79 Palmer’s Legacy 15 The Village Streets 82 Frederick Walker’s Rebuilding 16 Villagers and Their Houses 83 Seymour Ashwell’s Woodcarving 18 Houses of Rubble and Thatch 83 After Ashwell 20