Steve White and Clive Hannay look at how the villages of Compton Abbas, Fontmell Magna and Iwerne Minster have changed since Sir Frederick Treves visited them a hundred years ago.
The road to Blandford
March 14, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Compton Abbas, Dorset, Fontmell Magna, Iwerne Minster
Philip Salkeld V.C. (1830-1857)
December 13, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Fontmell Magna, Salkeld, Victoria Cross
The Reverend Robert and Elizabeth Henrietta Salkeld brought a son into the world at the Rectory in Fontmell Magna during the later half of 1830. Philip Salkeld was the seventh child in a family of ten.
