The Church and the Three Horseshoes Pub Church Street Bridge Street Manor Street Parsonage Street Mill Road The Rectory Mill House The Old Plough Porch House The Sheilings Wistow House _______________________________________________________________________________ Debbie Booth, Jenny Head, Althea Walker Heritage Day 2009  

A ploughman, a shepherd, a cowherd, a dairyman all earned 3 shillings in 1350 This is equivalent to £64.30 in today’s wages. A farm labourer earns 2s 6d, with beer in 1793, equivalent to £7 now A woman during haymaking and the harvest in 1793 earned 1s a day, equivalent to £2.80 now Weeding oats [...]

The Wistow Experience 410 – 1066 AD Anglo Saxons Very little is known specifically about Wistow during the early Anglo-Saxon years. The period of time ushered in by the fall of the Western Roman Empire has been called the Dark Ages, not because of murky sinister deeds, but because there is little documentation to shed [...]

On June 24th, 1833, John Pickard, a publican of Wistow, approached the police to ask them to help him clear his yard of people fighting. At about 10.30 Edward Foreman, a constable, assisted by Thomas Samworth, a butcher of Peterborough, went with Pickard to the yard and, according to Foreman’s court deposition, saw “two or [...]

The Atlas of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire History, edited by Tony Kirby and Susan Oosthuizen, says that there was a battle in Wistow in 917 when the Saxons decisively beat the Vikings. Yet there is no mention of this battle in other sources. According to the book Edward the Elder, King of Wessex, and his sister [...]

September 1939 – Start of WW2 and Evacuees School started early and evacuee children came from London Having a “double shift” timetable did not work and an alternative had to be found.     Gas masks With the outbreak of war everyone including children had to carry a gas mask at all times. Gas masks [...]

  SOME PROBATE INVENTORY ITEMS FROM A LOCAL RESIDENT OF EAST ANGLIA DATED 3RD DECEMBER 1675 In the hall, 1 table, 1 livery cupboard, 1 other cupboard, 1 clock, a jack(a type of tunic),a spit (for roasting meat),6 joined stools, 6 chairs, hob irons (a poker), fire pan and tongs £4 0s 0d 1 feather [...]

A National School was built in 1845 for 55 children, supported by voluntary subscription. The school was later a Church of England School. There are a few documents available at the Huntingdon Records Office, which comprise of a Log Book running from June 1 1915 to October 24 1945. A 1946 plan and survey of [...]

  Extracts from the Undertaker’s Book from the 1920s Below are some extracts from the accounts book belonging to Ted Clarke, who was the publican of the Fleur de Lis in the early part of the 20th Century. He was also a carpenter and cabinet-maker and the village undertaker. Harry Allen, a blacksmith, would come [...]

Wistow Warbler       Winter 1178   MONKS FLEE FLOODS The increasing frequency of flooding has finally forced the monks to move from Wistow to Bury  After 200 years the last Benedictine monk has left Wistow to take up residence in the new church at Bury, which has wisely been built on high ground. The Abbot said [...]