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A Castle Reborn

Hedingham Castle, Essex, part II
The home of Jason and Demetra Lindsay

In the second of two articles, John Goodall considers how a great medieval castle became a Georgian country seat and reports on an exemplary restoration project. Photographs by Paul Highnam.

Fig 1: The new house stands within the outer bailey of the castle. It is connected to the inner bailey with its great tower of the 1140s by a fine Tudor bridge built of brick.

On March 22, 1703, the body of Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey. With him was extinguished a title that had descended, along with the hereditary office of Lord Chamberlain, directly in the male line since 1142. Impressive though the Earl’s pedigree undoubtedly was, however, its accompanying patrimony had been sadly reduced since the Middle Ages. As an emblem of this decline, the ancient seat of the family at Hedingham Castle had been largely demolished and finally alienated in 1655.

Ten years after the last Earl’s death, however, this ruinous castle was unexpectedly brought to life again with new money from London. In 1713, Lord and Lady Cullen, to whom the property had descended through the Trentham family, sold the Hedingham Castle estate to one Robert Ashhurst. He was the third son of Sir William Ashhurst, a Lancastrian Nonconformist who became both an MP and Lord Mayor of London before his death at the age of 73 in 1720. Confusingly, many authorities incorrectly describe Sir William as the purchaser of the property.

In acquiring Hedingham Castle, Robert almost certainly aimed to dignify a successful mercantile career in time-honoured fashion by becoming a country squire. At the time of the purchase, he was already in his early forties and had been married for nearly 20 years (although he would be widowed and marry again before his own death in 1725). His social circle was formed both by his City connections and his Nonconformist roots.

One close member of his wider family circle was the intriguing Mary, Lady Abney. She was the daughter of a Presbyterian merchant, the wife of a noted Nonconformist Lord Mayor and, as a widow, a significant benefactor of Nonconformity in her own right. Her chaplain was the independent minister and hymn-writer Isaac Watts and she became a guardian of Robert’s daughters.

No documentary evidence survives to record Robert’s changes to Hedingham, but the likelihood is that he immediately set to work planning and then constructing a new house on the site of the medieval castle. This comprised two ditched enclosures or baileys on a figure-of-eight plan that were connected by a Tudor brick bridge. It is possible that a small residence had been pieced together from the castle ruins in the 17th century, but, if so, nothing obvious remains from it. The sole important medieval survival was the huge Romanesque tower in the inner bailey. In 1713, it must have been the tallest building in the county. The new house was laid out directly adjacent to it in the former outer bailey at the bottom of the Tudor bridge (Fig 1).

Fig 2: The seven-bay south front of the house. To the left is visible the pedimented service range.

Its main block was a brick box two storeys high above a basement, seven window bays broad (Fig 2) and five deep. The parapets of the building were ornamented with a balustrade, but the only other external ornament was a restrained door-case in the centre of the main, south-facing front and another to the west.

A series of lead waterheads bear the date 1719, which suggests that the building was being completed that year. An octagonal dovecote a short distance from the house, which was recently restored with the financial support of the Country Houses Foundation, also has the date 1720 picked out in blackened bricks.

 

Connected corner to corner to the main house by a rusticated archway was a two-storey service and kitchen wing with a low pediment. This screened a stable court to the rear (north). In front of the house, to the south, the outer-bailey earthworks were levelled away to create a landscape view away from the adjacent village. Two small gazebos were erected and the keep itself, which was evidently a ruined shell, was perhaps turned into a garden building with new floors and a roof. Behind the house, the inner bailey earthworks were reshaped to form garden terraces.

Fig 7: The view from what was originally the front door southwards down the canal.

These changes created a fine view of the house from the south that is repeatedly captured in 18th-century views. They show, from left to right, the keep, the Tudor bridge, a small ornamental obelisk in the stable yard, the kitchen range and the house itself. Work to the grounds was still under way when Robert died in 1725 and, the following year, his eldest son, William, signed an agreement with a gardener, Adam Holt of Leytonstone, to lay out new lawns, walks and an avenue.

Holt also formalised the arrangement of medieval pools to the south of the house as a canal on the axis of the front door with an octagonal basin at one end (Fig 7). Meanwhile, William’s accounts record the payment of £80 3s to one William Harrison in November 1726 for the ‘iron gates and rails at Henningham Castle’. This is certainly a reference to the handsome ironwork that formerly enclosed a small forecourt. Might this be the same man who produced the splendid staircase in the principal hall ? (Fig 3) In the same year, he also paid William Cooper £44 9s ‘for the monument and stone cutters work at Henningham Castle’, presumably for the memorial to his father in the parish church.

Fig 3: The staircase hall with its splendid ironwork balustrade. The position of the staircase in the central front room is unusual.

After William’s death in 1735, the estate passed to his younger brother, Thomas, who made further minor changes to the interiors. According to his ‘Country House’ account for May 1747, he paid William Curtis for surveying (‘Sirvaing’ in the orginal) the house. The ensuing changes included the creation of ‘an arch in the drawing room’ (Fig 5), the enlargement of windows in the parlour and the installation of a marble chimneypiece purchased from Richard Fortman. At a cost of £12 12s, this last fitting was expensive, but not opulent. The following year, in July 1748, Horace Walpole visited the castle, ‘the last remains of the glory of the old Aubrey de Veres, Earls of Oxford… shrunk to one vast ruinous tower, that stands on a spacious mount raised on a high hill with a large fosse’. He was not impressed, however, by the modern additions, snidely remarking that the castle ‘belongs to Mr Ashurst a rich citizen who has built a trumpery new house close to it’.

Fig 5: The drawing-room fireplace incorporates a painted overmantel.

Curiously, in the 1750s, he collected a cupola or lantern for the staircase of his own celebrated Gothic house at Strawberry Hill that supposedly came from the castle ruins. When Thomas died without heirs in 1765, the estate reverted back to his elder brother’s line. William’s sister, Elizabeth, had married Sir Henry Hoghton and died giving birth to her only child in 1761, another Elizabeth. Sir Henry, therefore, took control of the estate and was possibly the figure who began to soften its formal landscape setting. Certainly, an estate map of 1766 by G. Sangster shows that the forecourt of the house had now been replaced by a turning circle for carriages.

In 1777, Sir Henry tried to sell Hedingham Castle, but, six years later, he conveyed it to his daughter and her husband from 1783, Lewis Majendie. The Majendie family was of Hugenot descent and formidably well connected. Lewis himself was a figure with impressively wide interests. As well as serving as a soldier, he was a founder member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He continued the transformation of the castle grounds with extensive new plantations of trees and also—as we saw last week— commissioned a remarkable architectural survey of the keep, which was published in 1794.

Upon his death in 1833, the castle passed to his eldest son, Ashurst Majendie. His heir in 1867 was a nephew, Lewis Ashurst Majendie, another figure with strong antiquarian interests. The year after he inherited, he oversaw the archaeological excavation of the inner bailey.

Fig 8: The 1870s dining room fireplace incorporates Tudor panelling.

As it appears today, the house is very much the creation of this second Lewis and his wife, Lady Margaret, a daughter of the 25th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. It was probably shortly after their wedding in 1870 (and certainly by 1876) that they effected a major overhaul of the building. They erected a porch over the archway connecting the service range with the main building and completely reconfigured several of the interiors with well-chosen period fittings.

To them, for example, can be attributed the impressive dining room in the service range (Fig 8) as well as the fine glazed fireplace in the former boudoir (Fig 4). It’s likely too that the fine hall fireplace is a piece of period salvage introduced in the 1870s (Fig 6). Whatever the case, the house was effectively in its modern form by 1896 when this ‘charming family mansion’ was offered for auction on August 13 in London. For some reason, the house was not sold, but was leased out for a period.

Fig 4: The present kitchen furnished as a boudoir in the 1870s with this glazed fireplace.

Fig 6: The fireplace in the hall may be an insertion of the 1870s.

It was back in family occupation, however, when its interiors and furnishings were photographed by COUNTRY LIFE for an article published on September 18, 1920. In 1939, the estate was unexpectedly inherited by Musette Majendie, who lived here for the rest of her life. The house subsequently escaped requisitioning during the Second World War, but, in the 1950s, Miss Majendie leased a large number of rooms to elderly residents to supplement her income. This institutional use came to an end at her death in 1981. She left Hedingham Castle—now shorn of most of its estate—to her cousin, The Hon Thomas Lindsay.

By happy coincidence, he could trace his descent from the de Veres through both his father’s and mother’s families. In this sense, the bequest reunited Hedingham Castle with its founding family after a 300-year interlude. With his wife, Virginia, he decided to open the castle and keep to the public, but the neighbouring house stood largely empty.

 Jason Lindsay, the present owner and one of their sons, was introduced to the problems of managing Hedingham Castle by his parents. After his marriage to Demetra, an architect, the couple decided to move into the house and develop the whole site further. Theirs has been a very hands-on approach, which has greatly benefited from careful planning and enthusiasm. It has also cumulatively transformed the property in an exciting and exemplary fashion.

They moved into the empty house 12 years ago, just before the birth of their eldest daughter. Since then, they have gradually returned the whole to life as a family home. Their particular contributions to the interior have been the creation of a stylish kitchen in the former boudoir and the restoration of the former dining room. When the installation costs for the hung silk in this latter room far exceeded their purse, they simply got on with the job themselves.

Between October 2008 and August 2009, they took part in a garden restoration television programme commissioned by Channel 4 called The Landscape Man and used the publicity as a means to unlocking sponsorship. During the course of the filming, they were able to make major changes to the landscape, restoring the 1890s bog garden and clearing the 18th-century canal and octagonal pool.

At the same time, they embarked on the renovation of the keep as a wedding venue, with impressive results. In this building, the public can see one of the outstanding survivals of Romanesque architecture in the country thriving in private care and without State support. Perhaps against the odds, the Lindsays have decisively put Hedingham Castle back on its feet once more. Theirs is a tremendous achievement.

Hedingham Castle is in the very middle of the area covered by the CSCA. If you do not know it, it is well worth a visit and is a very special place for a wedding.

 

 

2023 - Read about the wonderful new gallery being built in Sudbury for Gainsborough's masterpieces; follow the trail of a tireless local environmental campaigner; get ready for the second EA cultural festival, the Bures music festival and Opera at Layer Marney; discover the beautiful garden of Holm House with its wildflower meadow and lake; travel through the Colne valley along the Gainsborough line; find out where you can get local financial advice; enjoy an illustrated walk in the Stour Valley; and read our Chairman's update on proposed housing developments, solar farms, and the National Grid's Bramford to Twinstead electricity grid reinforcement project. 

2022 - Read about the wonderful new gallery being built in Sudbury for Gainsborough's masterpieces; follow the trail of a tireless local environmental campaigner; get ready for the second EA cultural festival, the Bures music festival and Opera at Layer Marney; discover the beautiful garden of Holm House with its wildflower meadow and lake; travel through the Colne valley along the Gainsborough line; find out where you can get local financial advice; enjoy an illustrated walk in the Stour Valley; and read our Chairman's update on proposed housing developments, solar farms, and the National Grid's Bramford to Twinstead electricity grid reinforcement project. 

2022 Magazine
Year: 2022
Chairman’s Letter
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Category: Culture
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Bures Music Festival
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2020 - Welcome to our 2020 lockdown edition - only published ONLINE. Read about the wonderful Alfred Munnings Exhibition "Behind the Lines"; find out how the beavers have been getting on at the Spains Hall Estate in Finchingfield, introduced back into Essex after an absence of 400 years; explore the link between Ferriers in Bures and the Voyage of the Mayflower, the Salem Witch trials and Wampum belts; read a fascinating interview with Carl Shillingford, talented Michelin chef and keen local forager; and enjoy a celebratory update from Ken Forrester on South African wines and his support for a wonderful local school.  

2020 Magazine
Year: 2020
Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2020
Behind the Lines: Alfred Munnings, War Artist
Category: Art, Culture
Year: 2020
The Foragers Retreat – Michelin chef in Pebmarsh.
Category: Food, Nature
Year: 2020
Dam Good Job – Beavers back in Essex after 400 years.
Category: Explore Colne Stour, Nature
Year: 2020
Ferriers – a Bures house and its connection to the Mayflower.
Category: Adventure. Travel, Architectural Interest, Culture, History
Year: 2020
Three special milestones for Ken Forrester Wines  
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2020

2019 - Read about Tudor living on a grand scale at Alston Court, how Samuel Courtauld & Co. shaped our towns and villages, hear inspiring stories of local vineyards Tuffon Hall and West Street, get an update on the Dedham Vale AONB extension, and take a tour round Polstead Mill, one of East Anglia's beautiful secret gardens. 

Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2019
Dedham Vale AONB extension
Year: 2019
The Tuffon Hall Transformation
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2019
A Hong Kong racehorse in an Essex field
Category: Nature
Year: 2019
Andy Gentle – A chainsaw love affair
Category: Business
Year: 2019
A vivid insight into Tudor living on the grand scale.
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2019
Underground Moats & Zinc Cathedrals
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2019
Secret Gardens of East Anglia – Polstead Mill
Category: Gardens
Year: 2019
Repairing the damage of a supermarket delivery van
Year: 2019
How Samuel Courtauld and Co. shaped our towns and villages
Category: Architectural Interest, Culture, History
Year: 2019
Ken Forrester
Year: 2019
CSCA Photography Competition
Year: 2019
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens
Year: 2019
Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2019

2018 - Read about Hedingham Castle, a new National Centre for Gainsborough in Sudbury, award-winning new Gins from Adnams, aspects of our Industrial Heritage, the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, the Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project, and take a look at the proposed new Constitution for CSCA.. 

Chairmans Letter April 2018
Category: Annual, News, Planning Issues
Year: 2018
History of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
Category: Architectural Interest, Art, Culture, History
Year: 2018
Another Suffolk Success Story – Time for a G & T?
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2018
Some more aspects of our Industrial Heritage
Category: Agricultural, Brewing, distilling and wine, History
Year: 2018
An Earl’s Tower
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2018
A Castle Reborn
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2018
Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project
Category: Explore Colne Stour, Nature, Planning Issues
Year: 2018
A National Centre for Gainsborough set within the town where he was born and the landscape that inspired him
Category: Architectural Interest, Art, History
Year: 2018
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens, History
Year: 2018
Treasurer’s Report
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2018
New Constitution
Year: 2018
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2018

2017 - Read about our local industrial heritage, Paycocke's House history, why heritage matters, the art of Alfred Munnings, a haunted house in Lamarsh, celebrating Gainsborough, the beauty of recreating Cedric Morris's Iris collection and a small wine snippet from Ken Forrester. 

Chairmans Letter April 2017
Category: Annual, News, Planning Issues
Year: 2017
Heritage Matters
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2017
Some aspects of our Industrial Heritage
Category: History
Year: 2017
Paycocke’s House: a witness to history
Category: Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
The House of his Dreams: Reimagining The Munnings Art Museum
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
‘The Haunted House’ of Lamarsh – Some Early Reflections
Category: History
Year: 2017
Gainsborough’s House: Celebrating the Past and Looking to the Future
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
Another, highly unusual, Suffolk Success Story
Category: Gardens, Nature
Year: 2017
Garden Visits 2017
Category: Gardens, Nature
Year: 2017
Dirty Little Secret
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2017
Website
Category: News
Year: 2017
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2017
Treasurer’s Report
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2017

2016 - Interesting articles on medieval graffiti, farming in the Stour Valley, exploring our AONB, early settlers from the Stour Valley to America, the archaeology of a local farm, a wonderful catalogue of British birds, celebrating a Suffolk joinery business, the weather from a South African winery. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2016
Medieval Graffiti: the hidden histories…
Category: History
Year: 2016
Stour Valley Farming
Category: Business
Year: 2016
The Godly Kingdom of the Stour Valley
Category: History
Year: 2016
Keeping It Special in the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Stour Valley Project
Category: Nature
Year: 2016
Lodge Farm, Rectory Road, Wyverstone Street, Suffolk
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2016
A Miscellany of Information about British Birds
Category: Nature
Year: 2016
Another Suffolk Success Story
Category: Business
Year: 2016
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens
Year: 2016
Harvest, Fires and Fynbos
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2016
LOOKING FORWARDS, BEFORE I GET LEFT BEHIND….
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2016
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2016
Annual General Meeting and Summer Party
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2016
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2016

2015 - The life and times of a flint knapper. A continuation about the history of the ancient farm at Henny and a visit to the inside of Alston Court, Nayland as well as an insight into The Antiques Roadshow.  

Chairman’s Letter – February 2015
Category: Annual
Year: 2015
Caught Knapping
Category: History
Year: 2015
ALSTON COURT
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2015
ORGANIC MUTTERINGS
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2015
THE STORY OF SPARROW’S FARM, GREAT HENNY – PART 2
Category: History
Year: 2015
ON AND OFF THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Category: Business
Year: 2015
UNLOCKING THE ARTIST WITHIN: FINE ART LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2015
BADGERS – LOVE’EM, OR HATE’EM?
Category: Nature
Year: 2015
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Gardens
Year: 2015
FORRESTER VINEYARDS, SOUTH AFRICA
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2015
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2015
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2015

2014 - A hair-raising flight from UK to South Africa and an insight into the Wineries of Stellenbosch. An exceptional old mill just outside Bures and a most unusual chapel on the hill behind, as well as a time warp farm at Henny. 

Chairman’s Letter – February 2014
Category: Annual
Year: 2014
ST. STEPHEN’S CHAPEL, BURES
Category: History
Year: 2014
THE STELLENBOSCH WINE ROUTE – THE PEOPLE AND THE DOGS!
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2014
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A FLIGHT TO STELLENBOSCH AND BACK
Category: Adventure. Travel
Year: 2014
A SUFFOLK SUCCESS STORY – JIM LAWRENCE LTD
Category: Business
Year: 2014
HOLD FARM, BURES ST MARY; A RARE TUDOR WATERMILL
Category: Architectural Interest
Year: 2014
THE STORY OF SPARROW’S FARM, GREAT HENNY
Category: History
Year: 2014
YOUR COUNTRYSIDE – FIGHT FOR IT NOW! your Britain fight for it now
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2014
TUNBRIDGEWARE
Category: History
Year: 2014
EXTENDING THE DEDHAM VALE AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB) – UPDATE
Category: News, Planning Issues
Year: 2014
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2014
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2014
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2014

2013 - Watermills on the Stour. How Constable and Gainsborough would have seen many of the buildings in our area. Let’s protect the Stour Valley by extending the AONB from where we take over from The Dedham Vale at Wormingford towards Sudbury. 

Chairman’s Letter – February 2013
Category: Annual
Year: 2013
THE WATERMILLS OF THE RIVER STOUR
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2013
MANAGING A MASTERPIECE: THE STOUR VALLEY LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP
Category: Art, History
Year: 2013
EXTENDING THE DEDHAM VALE AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB)
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2013
BUILDINGS IN THE EAST ANGLIAN LANDSCAPE – AS SEEN BY JOHN CONSTABLE
Category: Art, History
Year: 2013
THE ROUND CHURCH AT MAPLESTEAD
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2013
THE FINE WINES OF ENGLAND
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2013
PROGRESS AGAINST PYLONS: A ROUNDUP OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PYLONS SAGA
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2013
TEA AND THE TEA CADDY A BRIEF STUDY OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF TEA AND ITS CONTAINERS
Category: History
Year: 2013
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2013
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2013
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2013

2012 - A walk through many of the churches along the River Stour and how the Romans once lived right here in our midst, and how your pint is brewed. Also the ongoing fight to rid the Stour of the blight of Pylons. 

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER – FEBRUARY 2012
Category: Annual
Year: 2012
TREES R US – AN AMATEUR ARBORETUM
Category: Nature
Year: 2012
GLIMPSES INTO SOME STOUR VALLEY CHURCHES
Category: Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2012
THE ART OF BREWING
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2012
PLANNING REFORM
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2012
‘ELF ‘N SAFETY . . . AND ALL THAT
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2012
BRINGING OUR PAST TO LIFE: GESTINGTHORPE ROMAN VILLA
Category: History
Year: 2012
MINIATURE OR APPRENTICE PIECE?
Category: History
Year: 2012
GAINSBOROUGH’S VIEW
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2012
NEW STOUR VALLEY ENVIRONMENT FUND
Category: News
Year: 2012
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2012
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2012
THE COLNE STOUR COUNTRYSIDE ASSOCIATION. MINUTES OF THE 46TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT FERRIERS BARN, BURES ON THURSDAY 12TH MAY 2011
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2012

2011 - The brewers of East Anglia. The gardens of Marks Hall as well as the paintings of Alfred Munnings on display in Sudbury. How a small church became the Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds and all you need to know about antique birdcages. 

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER – APRIL 2011
Category: Annual
Year: 2011
Pylons
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2011
THE PAINTED CHURCH BECOMES BURY’S CATHEDRAL
Category: History
Year: 2011
MARKS HALL AND THE PHILLIPS PRICE TRUST
Category: History
Year: 2011
BREWING IN EAST ANGLIA
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2011
BURES MILL OVER NINE CENTURIES
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2011
LANDSCAPES BY MUNNINGS EXHIBITION AT GAINSBOROUGH’S HOUSE
Category: Art
Year: 2011
BIRD-CAGES – A FASCINATION
Category: History
Year: 2011
DAWS HALL EVENTS 2011
Category: Annual
Year: 2011
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2011
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2011
TREASURERS REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2011
THE COLNE STOUR COUNTRYSIDE ASSOCIATION. MINUTES OF THE 45TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT FERRIERS BARN, BURES ON THURSDAY 6TH MAY 2010
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2011
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2011

2010 - An artist who enjoyed his port and a canoe adventure along the Stour. Sudbury’s history and Coggeshall Abbey and a fight to get rid of Pylons from the Stour Valley. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2010
A Pint of Port to Paint a Picture
Category: Art, History
Year: 2010
A Walk Round Coggeshall Abbey
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2010
By Canoe to Cattawade
Category: Adventure. Travel, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2010
Nocturnal Visitors
Category: Nature
Year: 2010
Sudbury New Town – c.1330
Category: History
Year: 2010
A Stay in a Nomad’s Tent
Category: Business
Year: 2010
Freeing our countryside of the blight of pylons
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2010
Hobbies on the Stour
Category: Nature
Year: 2010
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2010
Website
Category: News
Year: 2010
Annual General Meeting 2009
Category: Annual
Year: 2010

2009 - Norwich School art and the Maplesteads. Ancient wallpapers, and is Long Melford the epitome of a Suffolk village? and don’t throw away a rug before checking what it is. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2009
By Hook or by Crook
Category: Art, History
Year: 2009
Unwanted Wildlife – Some Handy Hints
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
East Ruston Old Vicarage
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
Squash a Squirrel – Save a Tree
Category: Nature
Year: 2009
Historic Wallpapers and Cole & Son
Category: Business
Year: 2009
Long Melford – ‘Suffolk in a day’
Category: Architectural Interest, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2009
Don’t throw away a fortune!
Category: Business
Year: 2009
Garden Visits. Away Days
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
Website
Category: Annual
Year: 2009
Editors Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2009
Annual General Meeting 2008
Category: Annual
Year: 2009

2008 - The bell founders of Sudbury and all about a rogue from our area, Sir John Hawkwood, and a Sudbury secret – Gainsborough’s House. 

Member’s Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2008
Cycling in Suffolk – An Environmental Holiday
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2008
The Sudbury Bell Founders
Category: History
Year: 2008
The CSCA Website
Category: News
Year: 2008
From Sible Hedingham to Florence. The Remarkable Life of Sir John Hawkwood
Category: History
Year: 2008
‘One of Suffolk’s Best Kept Secrets’- Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2008
Discovering Historic Wallpaper in East Anglian Houses
Category: History
Year: 2008
The not so humble Mole (Talpa Europaea) and how to catch him
Category: Nature
Year: 2008
Annual Report 2007.
Category: Annual
Year: 2008

2007 - Why a bell had to be chipped to get into the belfry at Lamarsh. Watermills on the Colne and Dragonflies. 

Water Mills on the Upper Colne
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2007
Dragonflies on the Stour
Category: Nature
Year: 2007
Lamarsh Bell Restoration
Category: Architectural Interest
Year: 2007
The CSCA Website
Category: News
Year: 2007
What is wrong with our Horse Chestnuts?
Category: Nature
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