You’re probably thinking that this is a subject to avoid! But, to a Historian, the tax schedules can give a unique insight into who lived in the village at any one time. Badwell Ash is fortunate to have complete schedules of tax payers from the Subsidy Return of 1283 in the reign of Edward I right up to The Tithe Act of 1836.
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A History of Parkers Farmhouse
Before Parkers Farmhouse was built It is difficult to establish what was here before Parkers Farmhouse existed simply because the house is named today after […]
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“What would you be, you wide East Anglian sky, Without church towers to recognise you by” John Betjeman A Brief History There was possibly an […]
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29th June 1826 – 24th December 1916 Our story is about the two people who in the second half of the 19th century, made Badwell […]
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