Marldon Local History Group : Home Page

The About the Group page gives information on its formation and objectives. A Report is produced monthly for the Parish Magazine and a copy is viewable on-line. The Diary section gives details of forthcoming Group meetings and Speakers, and is accessible from the Monthly Report page as well as the main menu. The Group would also like to hear from anyone who has any further information, anecdotes or memorabilia about the Parish or its people. We have also added a short history of Marldon, by Tony Chidlow, on the Village History page.

The Archive Data pages list the memorabilia and other information so far collected and is grouped by the type of object i.e. booklet, photograph etc. The Archive is continually being added to and updated. Our collection of books is steadily growing, and includes books by Elizabeth Goudge, who lived in Marldon, plus many other local titles. More details are on the Books Page. Our archive contains many documents and memoirs from Village life, and some of these will be published on the Social History page. Marldon’s renowned summer event is the Marldon Apple Pie Fair and we have a short history on the Apple Pie Fair page. The 1840 Tithe Map for the Parish of Marldon, including Compton and Westerland comprises of a map and a comprehensive database of field names and dwellings including Landowners and Occupiers. The Map is divided into smaller areas for ease of reference

The Group has recently completed a comprehensive survey of the Upper Churchyard, and this, together with an existing survey carried out some years ago, has enable the Group to produce a fully comprehensive index of the whole Churchyard. The St John Baptist Churchyard is divided into the Lower Churchyard, of mainly older burials and memorials , the more recent Upper Churchyard and the area for Caskets.

Our current short slideshows are of the Marldon Church, Compton Village and Castle, present and past Villagers and Old Postcards. We hope that the photographs will be refreshed from our Archive from time to time. We also have a new page of photographs, Marldon Now. The photographs, taken by committee member Ray Bond, will hopefully stir memories of our beautiful village.

If you would like to contact the Group regarding family history details, Group membership or other information our details are on the Contacts page. A small, but growing, number of useful sites are on the Links page.


	Marldon Local History Group : Life in a Devon Parish