Landscape / Farming

‘Landscape history of Hadstock Parish 1777-2020, Part 3: The 1801 Hadstock Inclosure Act’, by Richard Dolby and Rick Albrow

Art and Literature, Landscape / Farming, Parish History, Parish Records

Part 3 of our Landscape History series illustrates and explains the Hadstock Inclosure Act of 1801. This transformed the landscape by affecting 70% of the Parish land area and eliminating open fields, shots and strips. New privately owned fields were created with the aim of improving productivity.

The Beekeeper’s Tale – by Tony Handley

1020-2020 St Botolph's Church, Art and Literature, Landscape / Farming, People, Video

Tony Handley explains the beekeeper’s art. “The Beekeeper’s Tale produced by Saul Woods and Licenced under CC-BY-NC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ “

‘ Landscape history of Hadstock Parish 1777-2020, Part 5: Notable Buildings’, by Richard Dolby and Pat Croxton-Smith

Airfield, Art and Literature, Landscape / Farming, Mills, Parish History, Public Houses, Railway, St Botolph's Church, Village Hall

This is a further addition to the series of illustrated online publications dealing with the landscape history of Hadstock Parish. Part 5 presents images and explanatory text on notable buildings, including St Botolph’s church, the former village school, listed houses, shops, large barns, pubs, mills and WW2 airfield structures.

‘ Landscape history of Hadstock Parish 1777-2020, Part 4: Houses and the Built Environment’, by Richard Dolby and Pat Croxton-Smith

Art and Literature, Hadstock Memories, Landscape / Farming, Parish History

This is a new addition to the series of illustrated online publications on the history of Hadstock Parish. Part 4 focuses on the built environment, and beginning with buildings seen in the Chapman and André map of 1777, housing development in Hadstock and Bowsers over the last 240 years is presented and explained. The information was derived from seven published maps. ‘Lost ‘ buildings are highlighted and population changes explained.

‘ Landscape history of Hadstock Parish 1777-2020, Part 2: Field Systems. Fields and Ownership’ by Richard Dolby and Rick Albrow (pdf)

Art and Literature, Hadstock Memories, Landscape / Farming, Parish History

This is Part 2 of a series of illustrations and notes which looks at the landscape history of Hadstock Parish over the last 250 years. It examines the major changes in field systems, fields and ownership caused by the Hadstock Inclosure Act of 1801, the arrival of the railway in 1865 and the USAAF airfield in 1942. It concludes with the 2020 field landscape and field ownership.

Environment in Danger – a 1981 video portrait of Hadstock

Art and Literature, Hadstock Memories, Landscape / Farming, Parish History, Places, Video

In 1979, a BAA proposal to build a new terminal at Stansted Airport and expand passenger numbers to 15 million a year saw concerted action throughout Essex to oppose the planning application. A film, directed by Donald Stewart, was produced by the Hadstock Society which set out to show how the character and social life of those villages under the proposed flight path and stacking areas was potentially threatened.

The Society ran several events to finance the production, and various aerial shots were taken using a helicopter, courtesy of the Vesty family. The film was accepted and presented as evidence in the Public Inquiry which was held in Quendon in June 1982. The Inspector, Graham Eyre, commended the film and later it won the Essex Chronicle Award of the Essex Amenity Societies.

However, the Inquiry approved the BAA planning application in 1983 accepting a big increase in passenger numbers but turned down the need for a second runway. The new terminal was opened in 1991. Although the planning result was not the outcome wanted or expected in Hadstock, the film captures village life here 40 years ago in a charming and delightful way.

2021 AGM talk

Landscape / Farming

This was a joint talk on ‘Fields and Field Systems of the Parish’ given by Rick Albrow and Richard Dolby after the AGM in November 2021

‘The Landscape History of Hadstock Parish 1777-2020, Part 2: Field Systems, Fields and Ownership’, by Richard Dolby and Rick Albrow (Flipbook)

Art and Literature, Landscape / Farming, Parish History

This is Part 2 of a series of illustrations and notes which looks at the landscape history of Hadstock Parish over the last 250 years. It examines the major changes in field systems, fields and ownership caused by the Hadstock Inclosure Act of 1801, the arrival of the railway in 1865 and the USAAF airfield in 1942. It concludes with the 2020 field landscape and field ownership.

‘The Landscape History of Hadstock Parish, 1777-2020, Part 1: Boundaries, Roads, Woods, and Paths’ by Richard Dolby

Art and Literature, Landscape / Farming, Parish History

Explore the changes in Parish landscape over the last 250 years. This is Part 1 of a series of illustrations and accompanying notes about Hadstock landscape history, and highlights the impact of the railways arriving in 1865 and the siting of the WW2 USAAF airfield in 1942.

Aerial views of USAAF Station 165, 1944-1946

Airfield, Bowsers, Landscape / Farming, Photos-Parish places

These images are courtesy of the American Air Museum in Britain, part of the Imperial War Museums, (www.americanairmuseum.com)

Parish Boundary Walk, May 2021

1020-2020 St Botolph's Church, Bowsers, Events, Landscape / Farming, Photos-Events, Photos-Parish places, Photos-People/Groups

On Rogation Sunday, May 23rd 2021, and organised and led by Gill Butterworth, a group of Hadstock residents ‘beat the bounds’ and walked 7.5 miles round the Parish boundary as part of the 1020-2020 Millennium celebrations. Starting on Linton Road near the zoo, the group walked anticlockwise, had a lunch break in Nunn Wood, and finished in the Grip at Linton.