Sawtry History
Local History of Sawtry and the Surrounding Villages
Welcome to the Sawtry History website. This website is in conjunction with Sawtry History Society. Here you will find lots of information about the history of Sawtry and the surrounding villages. If you would like some local history information or would like to contribute to this website, click on the contact us page link below. Click on the other links below for more information about this website and for information on Sawtry History Society. Scroll down this page for Latest News items.
New historical information will be posted as Latest News on the Home Page below.
There is a feature page where an item from a current history event or from our historical past will be a
monthly feature.
On our "In Focus" page we will take an item of interest whether it is a notable person, a landmark, a book, a resource, a historical event or just some interesting facts and put it under the spotlight. The Local History Articles page has some articles about Sawtry Abbey, St Andrews Church and other interesting items. Check out this Local History link to pages where many different topics of our local history can be found. You can contribute to our memories page if you have a particular childhood memory or a memory of Sawtry, the surrounding villages and their people. Just contact us on the email address above to contribute. Read some of the memories here.
New This Month
The talk at the November meeting of Sawtry History Society
will be "Did Cromwell Ban Christmas" given by Stuart Orme
curator of the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon. Visitors welcome.
Details below.
This Month's Historical Articles
November 2024
The Feature Article is on::
and the "In Focus" item is: