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Hempstead Timeline |
Year | Event |
1086 | Hempstead mentioned in the Domesday Book. 22 villagers, 10 smallholders, 200 pigs |
1094 | Charter of William II. Church in Great Sampford with Chapel of Ease in Hempstead. |
1615 | First Hempstead map |
1657 | Death of William Harvey |
1678 | Post Mill built |
1705 | Baptism of Dick Turpin |
1739 | Dick Turpin hangs in York |
1785 | Bread Riots in Saffron Walden |
1790 | Great Hempstead Oak dies |
1842 | Tithe map produced |
1854 | Village School built - now the Village Hall |
1862 | Rutland Almshouses built |
1865 | Saffron Walden railway opens |
1877 | Local OS map available |
1882 | Church Tower collapses |
1960 | Church Tower Finally re-built Hempstead Oak replanted |
1964 | Saffron Walden railway closes |
1972 | Hempstead wins new Essex Local Amenity Society Award for its Village Journal |
2000 | Hempstead Tapestry created Oak planted at the top of the Glebe for the Queen's Golden Jubilee |
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