Please note Langford & Districts History Society Secretary has a new email address (very similar to the previous one but now secretarylangfordhistory@outlook.com) .
If you have sent anything since I circulated the draft AGM minutes and any new items, please could you resend it to the outlook address to ensure receipt ? Apologies for any inconvenience!
A reminder that Stephen Coleman will be the speaker at our meeting next Wednesday, 4th March.
His presentation is entitled “A History of Bedfordshire Hedgerows” – this talk focusses on the creation of hedgerows in the county over the last 2000 years and shows that today’s field patterns are not entirely a product of the last 200 years but the result of medieval piecemeal enclosure of common fields by private agreement from the later 14th century and in some places parliamentary enclosure of the 18th and 19th centuries imposing a rectilinear field pattern on the landscape. Documentary records also provide a glimpse of hedgerow maintenance and allow us to recognise their economic and practical value, especially their trees, often the subject of detailed surveys.
As usual, the meeting will be held in Langford, St. Andrew’s Church Hall with tea / coffee and biscuits available from 7.45pm and the Speaker starting at 8pm.
Admission fee: £3 member, £5 visitor.
Please could those of you who have not already paid your annual membership subscription (£5 per person) either bring cash or contact our Treasurer (John Shipman – j.m.shipman@ntlworld.com) to arrange payment.