Hardwick History

• Hardwick - Old and New book and CD
  • Press report 30 June 2004
  • Exhibition of Memorabilia 4 July 2004 (pictures)
  • Local History Award 7 May 2005
• Histories of Hardwick. The following three accounts inevitably have similarities, but all are worth looking at:
  • A Brief History of Hardwick by Martin Hay
  • Hardwick through the Ages by David Pine
  • History of Hardwick by Christine Kuch
• Hardwick timeline
• Domesday Book online : Hardwick
• History of St Mary's Church
  • Visit of William Dowsing, 1644
  • Rectors of Hardwick see also Clergy of the Church of England
• The Hardwick mural
• Hardwick School
• The Hardwick Roll of Honour. See also the World War I and World War II memorials in the church.
• Hardwick Enclosure Map (1836)
• Historical map of Hardwick (1890)
• Mid 20th Century map of Hardwick
• Historic buildings and monuments of Hardwick
• Old pictures of Hardwick
• Historic sales of Hardwick property
  • 23rd June 1853
  • 11th July 1908
  • 22nd June 1912
• Hardwick Wood
• Prehistoric stone axe found in Hardwick
• People
  • Hardwick characters
  • Hardwick faces & places, c.1950
  • Adams family
  • William Chapman
  • Alliston William Chisnall
  • John Colynge
  • John Hinds
  • Hobsons in Hardwick
  • Joe Kester
  • Mary Lindsay
  • Anne Longstaff
  • George Longstaff
  • John Morlen
• GENUKI (Genealogy of UK & Ireland) information on Hardwick
• Cambridgeshire Genealogy page on Hardwick
• Hardwick as a place-name from A Dictionary of English Place-names
• Living in Hardwick, 1948-1955 contributed by Ed Deak
• Life on the farm in post-war Hardwick contributed by Ed Deak
• Parish misery, 1920s
• Congregation's anger, 1904
• Dispute with the Rector, 1904
• My Villages (Caldecote, Hardwick and a few others) by Peter Rowell
• From the 1881 Census (contributed by Ken Basham)
• Plane Crash on The Hay 16th/17th December 1943
• Coronation celebrations, 1953
• Plane crash, 7 July 1960
• Recent Census data
• Aerial photograph of Hardwick (c. 1980)
• The first edition of the Hardwick Happenings
• Red Brick Farm Barns - archaeological assessment, July 2003
• Engineering in Hardwick
• Coprolite diggings: In 1864 the diggings started on a medieval earthwork (O.S. TL 353582) on Harcamlow Way in Hardwick, but there was nothing reported of any finds.

Discovering Local History in Hardwick, Saturday 25 May 2002