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6 Battalion R.E.M.E.

Aeroplanes on the Common

Ambulance Service in Hungerford

Apprenticeships and Charities

Archaeological Digs

Audio Archives (Oral History)

Berkshire Yeomanry

"Black Legend"

Building Materials in Hungerford

Burgage Plots

Canal

Caring for the Poor (from the medieval period to the 20th century)

Clubs and Groups

Coaching

Councils - Parish, RDC and Town

"Crescent and Star" badge of Hungerford

Crimes

Curiosities of Hungerford

Dating old photographs of Hungerford

Domesday Manors around Hungerford

Duchy of Lancaster Rentals & Surveys

Electoral Reform and Hungerford's Electorate

Elizabethan Hungerford

Emigration to New Zealand, 1840

Enclosure

Fairs and Markets

Fire Service, fires and fire-marks

Georgian Hungerford

Glossary of historic terms and phrases

Ham village in the 1950s

Hearth Tax 1662-1688

How Hungerford got its name

Hungerford in 1937 - John Allen's notes

Hungerford in 1795

Hungerford in 1900-1918 - Recollections of Barbara Hope née Astley

Hungerford in 1900-1920 - by "Jimmy"

Inflation and the cost of living

Inns & Alehouses

James & Co, Agricultural Millers 1910-86

John Wesley's visits to Hungerford, 1735-1790

Law and Order

Loyal Toast "The King, Duke of Lancaster"

Manorial History of Hungerford

Manor of Hungerford Engleford

Maps and Charts

Markets & Fairs

Medicine in Hungerford

Miscellaneous and unusual oddities!

Non-conformity in Hungerford

Oral History (Audio Archives & Transcripts)

Origins of the name Hungerford

Parish and Town Council

Parliamentary Reform

Photographic Archives

Police

Population and Censuses

Postal Service

Prehistoric Hungerford

Railway

Reminiscences (Audio Archives)

Roman Hungerford

Royal Charters

Royal visits (and others)

Rural Calendar - the seasons and Saints' Days

Rural Crafts

Schools

Street furniture

Telephone System

Timber-frame Buildings

Tithe Award, 1848

Town and Manor of Hungerford

Town Clocks & Sun dials

Trades & Occupations

Trade Directories

Transport - Canal, Coaching, Railway

Tudor Hungerford

Turnpike Trusts

War Memorials and the stories behind the names

Windows

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The Canal Wharf, Apr 2011The Canal Wharf, 2011

Hungerford, England, is a market town of about 5,900 people at the Berkshire / Wiltshire border.
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