Stoke Climsland Parish Archive and Heritage Collection holds thousands of documents and information about Stoke Climsland and its people, from prehistory onwards. It also stores the archives of a number of local organisations.

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The parish's fascinating past is represented by archaeological sites of the Bronze Age and Iron Age, its medieval history by manorial documents listing tenant farmers, their problems, disputes and their social lives, from 1337 and onwards. In the 17th century the Civil War brought changes and in the 16th and 19th centuries mining, emigration, quarrying, the Railway and Market Gardening had their impact. As did the 20th century's sickness and wars.

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Today's society constantly changes along with people's work and transport and now the Internet, meaning that the population has grown with many more coming to live here to enjoy the rural area. 

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We're lucky to have recorded interviews with people born and at school here in the early 1900s, wills of people made in the 1600s and the visible remains of their work in the prehistoric, medieval and recent times in the form of Bronze Age barrows, Iron Age rounds, medieval hedges and mining earthworks, and full blown mine sites and settlements from the 1800s.

 

If you'd like to know more about your ancestors, your house, or subject of interest, or if you have something to add to the Archive, please email us on scparchive@outlook.com 

 

We're entirely volunteer-run, so we may have to ask you for a small contribution to funds. 

 

And if you'd like to volunteer, please make contact asap! 

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Contact us too if you'd enjoy joining in with new Workshop sessions which will be starting as taster sessions in autumn '25:

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  - Data entry onto the Discovery system 

  - Making Victorian classroom costumes

  - Labelling artefacts 

  - Filing and indexing

  - Researching or writing about local topics