Blog entries for May 2022

Dusnton House as seen in c.1798.

Is Thatcham unique in the World?

A few posts ago I looked at other settlements named Newbury around the World. With Thatcham it is a different story, try as I might I cannot find another settlement called Thatcham. If you know of any please do get in touch so I can add to my Thatcham history research. There are similar names, […]

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The Thatcham Name over time.

A history of the name Thatcham

I wrote a post back in 2017, “The name of Thatcham“, detailing the history of the name of Thatcham. A few updates and more details are discussed in this post. The local myth is that when the people were stood thinking how to roof their buildings a figure (some say red with horns) suddenly appeared

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