Lol Walmsley
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Lol Walmsley - Local Historian
Here the Advertiser publishes two articles by local historian Mr Lol Walmsley a year after his death. Mr Walmsley, who spent most of his life in Newark and Balderton. wrote the articles in 2010 when he was 96 and almost blind.
His daughter, Dr Pat Walmsley, who now lives in New York, said that when her father was dying she promised she would submit them to the Advertiser on his behalf. 10:02am Mon Jan 16, 2012
Open field cultivation was used by the Celts in England three or four centuries before the Roman occupation.
The land was divided into strips separated by bauks of turf. 9:58am Mon Jan 16, 2012
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for the year 1085 record William I’s intention to have a survey made of all the land of England, which resulted in the writing of the Domesday Book.
William wanted to know how much the land was worth, mainly for taxation purposes. |
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