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for either Individuals or the Village

Both Methodist and Church of England congregations

A full range in Orwell; has your society submitted its history?

Articles referring to pre 1500s Orwell

Primary education in Orwell

Orwell has an impressive record of celebrating important milestones

This category covers 700 years of farming on the Open Field System and tells the history of the Orwell farms that were established after the Enclosure Act of 1837.

This category includes accounts from wartime evacuees as well as from long term Orwell residents

Until the spread of private car ownership in the mid 20th century gave the rural population easy access to shops beyond their parish boundaries, most English villages were self sufficient in everyday essentials and Orwell was no exception.

This category covers the Trades carried on in Orwell from 17th Century through to the present day, and includes public houses.