This well researched book by Adrian Bunting and others, describes the First World War years in a moving account through the losses born by the village including at the battles of Ypres, Mons, Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele.

Introductory chapters talk of a Parish with busy High Street, 14 public houses, a volunteer Fire Brigade run by the Parish Council, an infant and a secondary school closed from time to time due to the outbreak of infectious diseases such as Scarlet Fever, an active village social scene with occasional village Charabanc trips, active church communities providing regular Sunday School, concern about the state of housing for the poor and a fascinating description of the role of women.

This book can be ordered via our order form at £5 per copy.

Two new books by local historians Nicholas Maslin and Andy Morris on the history of Hartley Wintney.

The early history of the village and its Priory (Saxons to Tudors) covers the period from the very earliest settlers up to the end of the Elizabethan period after Wintney Priory had been dissolved.

Revolutions and village life (Stuarts to Victorians) covers the 250 years between Elizabeth I’s visit to Elvetham in 1591 and the first national census in 1841.

Both books are 150 pages in length and fully illustrated in colour.

These two books, by two local historians Nicholas Maslin and Andy Morris, present a format of Then and Now to celebrate some of the rich history of the civil parish of Hartley Wintney. Each book, of 122 pages in full colour, contains well over one hundred old black and white photographs which have been digitally recoloured to provide a better contrast and comparison to their modern equivalents. This gives a new perspective on some previously much viewed scenes and helps to illustrate how a particular building, group of buildings, or landscape has changed from its appearance since the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.

Both books can be ordered via our order form at £10 per copy with ALL profits generated from sales being donated to Hartley Wintney Voluntary Care Group.

The Victorian Heritage of Elvetham (published in September 2022), It is a companion publication to the previous book on the Victorian Heritage of Hartley Wintney. Andy Morris has again made use of the tithe map for Elvetham, published in 1839, together with the seven census returns between 1841 and 1901 to document and provide a picture of Victorian life in the old ecclesiastical parish of Elvetham before it was incorporated into the present day civil parish of Hartley Wintney. A series of maps have been drawn and compared with post Victorian Ordnance Survey maps to illustrate how surprisingly little Elvetham has changed since the Victorian period.