History
Crowfield - a frontier forest settlement's history
Introduction
- Influences and origins
Prehistory to Domesday
Middle Ages
16th and 17th Centuries
18th Century
19th Century
The Chapel
Late 19th Century emigration and Census details
20th Century
Graveyard names
A great debt of gratitude is owed in the writing of this history to
"Syresham .. A Forest Village By Philip Pettit"
Available from this website at £10-50 ($15) posted anywhere
Other items of historical interest
1901 Census
1881 Census
Welsh lane
The Old Mountains
Archaeological sites in Crowfield
The prehistory settlement
.. an arial photograph
The Roman fields
.. an arial photograph
1929 Poem by Joseph Timms
- interesting background on names in the village at that time
A Song about Syresham
- insight into the village on the 1920's
Syresham Medley
- insight into the village during First World War
The List of photographs
with some interesting historical data
Wrighton Family
.... some family tree info going back to the 1700's
Crowfield in 1911
showing how densely populated it was at one time
See all the
houses as they are today
See also
books on the area