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  Article Archive

Link to Sawtry History Digital Archive

Click on any of the titles below to access that article. Longer articles may be in PDF format

 Sawtry History Feature Articles

80th Anniversary of D Day

Christmas in Medieval Sawtry Pt 1​

Christmas In Medieval Sawtry Pt 2

Christmas In Medieval Sawtry Pt 3

Notable People Series

Sir Robert Cotton

Benjamin Irish

Thomas Blinkhorn

The Beville Family

The Louthes of Sawtry

 Sawtry History In Focus Articles

Denton and the Conington Estate

A Mountain, A Lake and a Sawtry Man Who Became a Colonist

Sawtry, Papyrus and the Epsom Derby

Murder at Woodfield Farm

Journey to the Normandy Beaches Pt 1

Journey to the Normandy Beaches Pt 2

Sawtry History Society Articles

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Series

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 1    Origins of the Cistercian Order

By Kevin Redgate

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 2   Carta Caritatis (The Charter of Charity )

Foundation Document of the Cistercian Order

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 3    Founding a New Abbey

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 4 -  The Abbey Precinct

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 5 -  Obidientiaries : Offices of the Abbey

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 6 -  Horarium, Hours Of The Day

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 7 -  The Monastic Community

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 8 -  Granges, Lodges and Urban Properties

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 9 -  Discipline, Transgression

and Punishment

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pts 10 & 11 -  Female Houses & Novitiate

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 12 -  Cura Corporis - Care of the Bodies

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 13 - Death & Burials

Sawtry Cistercian Abbey Pt 14 -  Beyond the Precinct and Worldly Affairs

Other Articles of Interest

Other Sawtry History Articles

St Andrews Churchyard

By Kevin Ruff

Local Sawtry Man and The Sinking of the Luisitania

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The Postwar Use of Sawtry/Wood Walton Lane POW Camp for Civilian Housing By Harry Joyce

Quintuplication By Maurice Dybeck

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