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The material presented on this website is a small proportion of that held locally in the Goldhanger Digital Archive and the images included here have a lower definition than those held in the archives. The copyright to the website design and majority of the material on the site is held by the Goldhanger Digital Archive. Acknowledgements for short extracts and snippets taken from other documents and to individual contributors are given in many places within the texts. Further acknowledgements will be readily added, or material removed, if request by copyright holders who have not so far been identified. Enquiries, comments, and offers of information associated with the village history will be most gratefully received at this re-typed email address:

david<at>churchside1<dot>plus<dot>com

The scale of the material held on the site is in the.... Site Map

The webpages show on the site-map are held at...... www.churchside1.plus.com/Goldhanger-past (Search for: Goldhanger past)

which can be accessed via a gateway at................. sites.google.com/site/goldhangerhistory (Search for: Goldhanger history gateway)

and via Essex County Council’s community site...... www.essexinfo.net/goldhanger-history (Search for: goldhanger history group)

There is also a copy of the website at..................... past.goldhanger.org.uk

The background to the site and archives is in.......... more about this website

Links to external sites are collected together in....... Useful external links

List of local history talks given in recent years........ Talks

*Recent changes:*	New in Oct 2017	1977, 2002 &2012 Jubilee videos - on YouTube
		YouTube video - Beckingham Hall Gatehouse, a short history
	New in Nov 2017	Societies and Clubs 50+ groups identified over several centuries
	New in Dec 2017	Chapel at Chappel farm - an ancient chapel close to the farm but within Goldhanger
		The Gurton Family - associated with the Grove Chapel and a charitable Trust
	New in *Jan 2018*	Coe-Coape and Coape-Arnold families – local land owners in the past
		YouTube video - a short tour and history of St Peter’s Church
		The Barrow Marshes – an area to the west, once in Goldhanger Parish
	New in Feb 2018	Fishing at Goldhanger and on the Blackwater – in the past
		Aerial views – in high definition from the1980s
	New in Mar 2018	YouTube video - BBC Radio Essex Quest visits Goldhanger
		YouTube video - Goldhanger Then & Now, using old postcards
		Portraits - sadly three recent additions
	New in Apr 2018	YouTube video -Osea Island - images from the past
	Revised in June 2018	Fishing at Goldhanger and on the Blackwater – in the past
	Revised in July 2018	Recent memorable scenes - 3 scenes added
		St Peters Church - major revisions: more links, docs. & an interactive feature
		The Goldhanger Flight Station – 2Lt. William Richardson photo added
		Beckingham Hall history – Cardinal Wolsey’s Tolleshunt Major connections
		The Barrow Marshes – farmhouse & Millbeach hotel history & photos added
	Revised in Aug 2018	The Village School – major revision to include recently found documents

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