Peldon from Mersea Museum

Peldon

Peldon History Project is working to record the history of the village of Peldon.

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Peldon

Pictures

Documents, cuttings

Peldon's Early History

	Peldon's Archaeology


	Domesday Book


	Comyn's Charity


	Peldon, John Ball, and the Peasants' Revolt


	Peldon and Henry VIII


	1636 Ship Money - Peldon and Winstree Hundred


	Sequestration of Rector of Peldon 1643


	The Great Plague of Colchester and London


	Essex during The French Wars. The fear of invasion


	Peldon in 1768 - Philip Morant


	Peldon in 1831 - Wright and Bartlett


	A description of Peldon in 1848


	Peldon in Essex. Village over the Marshes by Kay Gilmour Published in 1955 after Kay died. A comprehensive history of the village to that date. It was transcribed 2022/2023 and is available here.


	Old wills from Peldon and other local villages Mersea Archive Research Group had transcribed many wills from the area and they are a valuable source of local history.

Peldon Parish Church

	Peldon Church Histories


	Rectors of Peldon



	Restoration of St Mary the Virgin


	Peldon Church Bells


	The Coat of Arms in Peldon Church


	"Burial in Wool" in early Parish Records


	Married Clergy in the reign of Mary and Elizabeth


	Church Seating for the Poor


	Peldon and the Mozart Connection

Peldon Houses, Farms and Buildings

	Peldon Methodist Chapel


	Methodism in Peldon by Ben Cudmore


	Peldon Village Hall


	Peldon School


	Peldon Rectories


	Pyefleet House


	Peldon Hall Cottage - Chris and Archie Moore


	Peldon Lodge


	Barnards Cottages


	Brick House Farm Peldon


	Butlers Farm and Peldon Hole


	Church Cottage


	Games Farmhouse by Elaine Barker


	Games Farm - Alan Cudmore remembers


	Mr Great's House Kemps Farm


	Harvey's Farm


	Home Farm


	Honeysuckle Cottage


	The Mystery of Honor Villa and Goings Cottages


	Ives Farm


	Malting Cottage


	Malting Farm and Rolls Farm - Linda Starling


	History of Moor Farm


	Newpots Farm


	Pete Hall - a two part history by Simon Eagle


	Pete Tye Farm


	Priest's House


	Ransomes Farm


	Sampsons Farm and Samantuna


	Sampton Wick - formerly White House Farm


	Sleyes


	Whitakers on Lower Road

The Peldon Rose and The Plough

	The Plough Public House


	History of the Peldon Rose


	Pullens of the Peldon Rose


	Sparrow Pie at the Peldon Rose


	Iris and Charles Ollivant at the Peldon Rose

World Wars




	Peldon's War Dead


	Peldon in WW1 from School Log Books


	Evacuees come to Peldon


	Preparations for a German Invasion


	Peldon Home Guard - Beyond the Photo


	Some Record of the Parish of Peldon (A Vicar's Book)


	Auxiliary Units in WW2


	Farmers' evictions in WW2, and the Peldon Protest


	Women's Land Army in Essex in WW2


	Peldon Hostel Post-War: the Polish


	The War Years - Peldon. By Phyllis Day nee Wilson


	David Wilson Merchant Seaman - The POWs Story


	Charlton Cyril Mason died 24 February 1944


	John Scales RAFVR died 20 December 1943 See also John Scales Bomber Pilot by Geoff Gonella

Peldon People

	Alfred George Baldwin died 24 March 1918


	Yvonne & Ronnie Barbor of Lanhams, Lodge Lane


	The Beans of Peldon Hall


	The Bullock Family Part 2 The Peldon Connection


	John Linnett Clarke The Coans Alan Cudmore - Peldon Reminiscenses Peldon and the Mayors of Colchester Private Dines died 4 November 1918 Peldon Hostel Post-War: the Polish The Fenns of Lower Road Ernest Frederick Gladwell 1890-1915 June Martin nee Goody Leslie Grimes - Artist and Cartoonist Herbert Harrison - killed in the First Boer War The Hyams - Shopkeepers of Peldon Mark Hyam - 1889 - 1990 The Mallett Family; Sailors and Shopkeeper Les Malshinger Martin Family of Moor Farm Mason Family of Hill House John Milgate - boatbuilder of Shell Cottage Percy William Mortlock died 14 March 1915 Nymann the Dane Harry Ponder 1882 - 1979 Ernie Richardson - lived by the Strood George Scales - farmer Daniel Rich - a Peldon smuggler Harry and Angelina Smith - married 1875 Recollections of Mike Watson The Wooldridge Family of Kemps Farm Dora Banfield The Land Girl's Story Geoffrey Wooldridge Spring Wyncoll The Whiting Family of Peldon Ivor Walklett - Ginetta Cars