Sawtry History
Local History of Sawtry and the Surrounding Villages
Welcome to the Sawtry History website. This website is in conjunction with Sawtry History Society. Here you will find lots of information about the history of Sawtry and the surrounding villages. If you would like some local history information or would like to contribute to this website, click on the contact us page link below. Click on the other links below for more information about this website and for information on Sawtry History Society. Scroll down this page for Latest News items.
New historical information will be posted as Latest News on the Home Page below.
There is a feature page where an item from a current history event or from our historical past will be a
monthly feature.
On our "In Focus" page we will take an item of interest whether it is a notable person, a landmark, a book, a resource, a historical event or just some interesting facts and put it under the spotlight. The Local History Articles page has some articles about Sawtry Abbey, St Andrews Church and other interesting items. Check out this Local History link to pages where many different topics of our local history can be found. You can contribute to our memories page if you have a particular childhood memory or a memory of Sawtry, the surrounding villages and their people. Just contact us on the email address above to contribute. Read some of the memories here.
New This Month
There is no meeting of Sawtry History Society in December. The next meeting will be on Jan 16th when the talk will be "Crocodile Poo & Bear Fat" by historian Chris Carr. The SHS Archive will be open on Saturday 18th Jan 2025. The archive opens from 10.00 am to 12.00 Noon once a month on the Saturday following the Thursday meeting. If you would like to know more about the house or the village you live in, there are many interesting history items, maps, family history, census records and photo albums about Sawtry and the surrounding areas in times gone by.
This Month's Historical Articles
December 2024
There are three Feature Articles for Christmas:
Christmas in Medieval Sawtry Part 1
Christmas in Medieval Sawtry Part 2 Christmas at the Manor
Christmas in Medieval Sawtry Part 3 Christmas at the Church
There is no "In Focus" article this month but there is a new Archive set up of previous Feature and In Focus articles. Link Below