http://www.longmarston.org Long Marston, Wilstone, Puttenham & Astrope Villages Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:03:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A group of eight concerned and interested individuals from Long Marston and Gubblecote determined in November 1997 to acquire the site known locally as ‘Millhoppers’ to preserve its current character in perpetuity. The individuals concerned were prepared to make a significant and irrevocable financial commitment, as a last resort, not ... http://www.longmarston.org/2012/02/millhopper%e2%80%99s-pasture-a-community-initiative/ The Keelekart Company was founded by racing driver Michael Keele in the 1950s in Tring, with the engineering workshop being set up on the old gasworks site. Another resident of Tring at the time was ‘Mr Motor Racing’ Stirling (now Sir Stirling) Moss who invested in the company and became ... http://www.longmarston.org/2012/02/three-counties-kart-club-2/ When we first acquired the reserve, our main aim was to conserve the wild life that we already knew was there, with a particular emphasis on butterflies. But managing for butterflies also benefits so much other wildlife, so recording birds, plants, trees, dragonflies and any other aspects of wildlife; I ... http://www.longmarston.org/2012/02/recording-on-millhoppers/ The Parish Room, which dates back to late Victorian times, was not originally located at Puttenham but near Tring Station, on the Pendley Estate owned by Joseph Williams of Pendley Manor, where it was reputedly used as a luggage room. It is believed that the building was supplied as a ... http://www.longmarston.org/2012/02/the-parish-room-puttenham/ [singlepic id=367 w=750 h=590 float=center] http://www.longmarston.org/2012/02/ben-barritt-and-the-band/ [singlepic id=365 w=750 h=590 float=center] See us on Facebook: Long Marston Pantomime - Cinderella   See the write up from the Leighton Buzzard Observer. Published on Friday 3rd February 2012. Wickedly funny Cinders is home-grown http://www.longmarston.org/2012/02/cinderella/ [singlepic id=364 w=640 h=480 float=center] http://www.longmarston.org/2012/01/642/ Originally two cottages: a Thatched cottage, likely to have been built in the 16th/17th Century, and a slate roofed cottage of early Victorian origin, Old Church Cottage sits adjacent to the Mediaeval Tower of the old Chapel of Ease of Long Marston, and its' Church Yard. The earliest deeds in ... http://www.longmarston.org/2011/12/old-church-cottage-chapel-lane/ [singlepic id=363 w=640 h=480 float=center] http://www.longmarston.org/2011/11/christmas-carols-round-the-tree-2/ The term "field" was first used to distinguish areas cleared of trees from the tracts of forest found by the earliest settlers in Britain. The great fields were divided into smaller areas, known as furlongs or shots and these were subdivided into strips or plots held by individual tenants. Each furlong also ... http://www.longmarston.org/2011/11/fields/