Our Books and Archive Kimpton – Peters Green – Blackmore End – Porters End
– Ansells End – Rye End
Books
to download “Noble and Splendid”- the
illustrated story of the Lords and Ladies of Kimpton Hoo. The Dacres and
Hampdens were once some of England’s most wealthy and influential people,
as well as being fascinating in their own right. (8MB) “Aspects of Kimpton” -
ordinary villagers from Kimpton as portrayed through the censuses of 1841
to 1901. Find out what former residents of the village did and how
occupations changed over the years. With little gems like the travelling
showmen, caught in Kimpton on census night. (1MB) “Delightful and Bracing” -
Blackmore End and Porters End. How a scion of the Baxendale family, owners
of the Pickfords removal company, built a house at Blackmore End, how his
family lived, how the house featured in the First World War, and how the
present area developed. Plus wonderful old photographs of the former home
farm at Porters End. (5MB) Our
archive of old Kimpton Do your relatives, family or ancestors come from
Kimpton in Hertfordshire? Are you interested in family history in Kimpton? The Kimpton History Group has an extensive archive of
over 6,000 pictures and documents relating to all aspects of Kimpton’s
past. You can search for all items and see copies of most. Just click here for the
catalogue and follow instructions 2) to 4) on page 1 of catalogue. Please note to search for specific words within the catalogue, use the "Control+F" shortcut by pressing the Ctrl key + the F key at the same time to open the Find/Search box and then enter the word(s) you are looking for. For copyright and technical reasons not all the items
are available to view on the web at the moment but the catalogue contains
the full list. This archive is for private study only and not for
commercial use. Please note that the catalogue is not organised by
category, just by the order in which the items were loaded, so keep
browsing! The archive covers the whole of Kimpton parish
including Blackmore End (the site of the Birley and Gertrude Baxendale
family house and World War I Federated Malay States Hospital). The archive
also includes information on The Hoo, home of the Brand family (Lord Dacre,
Lord Hampden) just over the boundary
in the neighbouring parish of St Paul’s Walden. For enquiries about the archive, or if you have any
records, souvenirs, photographs or memorabilia that we could add to the
archive, please contact John Pollington. We
will return any original photographs if you are unable to send us copies. For a sample of the photos in our archive click here
for Photographic archive slide show.
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3rd Viscount Hampden at the dedication of the War Memorial in Kimpton |
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The Goat Inn, 41 High Street Kimpton,
about 1910
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