HEVERSHAM-A WEBSITE HISTORY

by ROGER K. BINGHAM

CHRONOLOGY

100,000 BC	Old Stone Age.
10,000 BC	Ice Age -glaciers retreat; permanent settlement began.
5,000 BC	Mesolithic Period/ Middle Stone Age - first settlements made.
4,000 BC	New Stone Age - Flint Axe from Levens Park.
3,500 BC	Forests began to be cleared.
3,000 BC	Beaker People settled the area.
2,000 BC	Bronze Age - Corduroy Roads laid down in Lyth Valley.
500 BC	Iron Age - Celts arrived.
500 BC to AD 0	Iron Age earth forts built at Heaves, The Helm, Dallam Park.
84 AD	Roman Invasion of Cumbria - fort at Watercrook; settlement at Hincaster.
400 AD	End of Roman Rule Celtic/Cwmry civilisation flourished.
600-700 AD	Angle settlers renamed older settlement 'Heversham'.
c.650 AD	Celtic Church monastery established at Heversham.
750 AD	Date of Anglian cross Shaft in the Church porch.
900 AD	Norse Viking invaders.
c.911 AD	Abbot of Tildred of Heversham fled from Vikings; monastery ends.
1060 AD	Heversham part of the domain of Earl Tostig.
1085	'Evesham' recorded in Domesday Book.
1092-94	Norman Conquest of Cumbria.
1094	King William Rufus granted Heversham to Ivo de Taillebois.
1094-98	Ivo's Gift. Taillebois granted Heversham to St Mary's Abbey at York.
c.1180	Date of south arcade in the Church.
1216	First reference to the Wyndesores as Lords of the Manor.
c.1316-9	Bruce's Scots raided Kentdale.
1334	The Wyndesores founded Milnthorpe Market in Parish of Heversham.
c.1350	Church south aisle and porch built.
1459	St Mary's Abbey at York granted Milnthorpe Mill to the Church.
c.1450	Church Chancel rebuilt followed by North Aisle and Levens Chapel.
1534	St Mary's Abbey dissolved; Heversham Church goes to the Crown.
1557	King Philip and Queen Mary granted Heversham Church's Living to Trinity College, Cambridge which became the Patron.
1598	The Plague devastated Kentdale.
1601	Heversham Church burnt out.
1602	Heversham Hall bought by the Wilson family.
1613	Edward Wilson founded Heversham Grammar School.
1623	The Plague returned -157 people died in Heversham.
1626	Dorothy Bellingham monument in the church.
1662	Hearth Tax returns provided information about inhabitants.
1691	Date on Lower Haverflatts farmhouse.
1694	Thomas Machell visited Heversham.
1719	Date on Lower Rowell Farm.
1745	Church wardens paid 1shilling to hide plate from Bonnie Prince Charlie.
1759	Kendal-Dixies Turnpike built through Heversham.
1769	Woodhouse - Martindale Charity set up.
1770	Four Dickinson children drowned while bathing.
1772	Heversham Grammar School bought the Ship Inn.
1802	Heversham Enclosure Act passed-completed 1815.
1815	Plumtree Hall built.
1817	Hincaster Tunnel completed.
1819	Lancaster - Kendal Canal completed.
1819-22	John Macadam built new Turnpike - later the A6 - through Heversham.
1837	Milnthorpe Church built - but Church Street still leads to Heversham.
1838	Heversham Church of England School founded.
1844	New vicarage 'High Leasghyll' built.
1846	London and North Western main railway line built through Parish.
1852	The Great Flood.
1856	Woodhouse built.
1859	Eversley House built.
1869-70	Church restored by Austin and Paley.
1872	Athenaeum opened.
1876	Furness Branch Line from Arnside to Hincaster Junction opened.
1876	Grammar School moved to new site in village street.
1877	Handleys move to Heversham Hall.
1884	Tattersall Almshouses founded.
1890	Heversham Railway Station opened.
1891	Church School moved to Leasgill.
1896	Heversham with Milnthorpe split into separate parishes.
1899-1900	Horncop House built.
1906	Eagle and Child Inn closed.
1906-8	Piped water laid on.
1907	Marsh flooded.
1915	First houses built on Woodhouse Lane.
1927	Princes Way by-pass opened. Also Marsh flooded.
1941	Heversham Station closed.
1947	Rhoda Thompson Trust established.
1948	Bay View Council houses built.
1952	Blue Bell closed - licensed transferred to Heversham Hotel.
1966	Heversham Hotel became The Blue Bell at Heversham.
1966	Dugg Hill estate built.
1967	Leasgill School (Heversham C. of E.) extended.
1984	Heversham Grammar and Milnthorpe Modern became Dallam School.
1984	Westmorland incorporated into Cumbria within South Lakeland District.
1999	Athenaeum modernised.
1999	Primary School hall and other improvements completed.
2000	www.heversham.org community website goes on-line !

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