Hello, and welcome to the Wittering History blog. I’ll be using the blog as the main way to convey information on this website for the foreseeable. Once my research has crystallised I expect to start making permanent, tailor-made pages which cover subjects in a more refined form.

These are a taste of some of the posts I’ll be making in the future:

  • Newspaper Articles: What can old newspapers tell us about Wittering?
  • Quarrying: What impact did limestone quarrying have on Wittering? Where was Wittering limestone used, and how important was the industry to the village?
  • Maps: What can old maps tell us about the changing social and economic landscape of Wittering?
  • The Church: An investigation of the village church, its architectural history and place in village life.
  • The Airfield: How did the airfield come into being, and how has it transformed the economic, geographic and social makeup of Wittering?

Expect these and more granular updates to come, generally speaking, whenever I feel like there is something worth mentioning!