Aycliffe Village

This is an interesting site maintained by John Clare, the Deputy Head at Greenfield School. Lots of useful information to be found – did you know that in Norman times, Aycliffe Village was a concentration camp?

Julian posted this as a comment, but I feel it deserves an entry to itself:
He said:

I’d personally like to hear from anyone who was a BP Scout at Aycliffe Village from the beginning to the present day. We have just started a new group up in the village and it would be nice to have a group of memories & anecdotes that can be shared with all of the younger kids – you know the sort of thing… camping on Roseberry Topping in the middle of a gale, long baot trips in Wales etc.
So if you read this and think “those were the days!”, then pen something and we’ll be off to a fine start.
Additionally, I know that the village had a Boy Scout troup from the thirties onwards, so if anyone has any information, please post it…

Andrew Hutton has kindly sent a link to a few old photos of the village.  He might have some more, (so keep checking back) but in the meantime if you go here you can see what he has so far.

Lots of maps, photographs and interesting things here – including a list of abandoned medieval villages.

A fascinating article about ancient lakes and water routes that were used by The Romans – including the River Skerne which runs through Aycliffe Village. To see it, click here.

Thanks to Tim of SedgefieldWeb, a very good local resource which I’ve added to the list on the right hand side of the page.

I’ve moved this to to a separate post after Dave Lewis posted it in the comments – sounds like an interesting day – come along and have a look.

1. Aycliffe Village History Society is holding an exhibition in the village hall on Saturday 9 September and Sunday 10 September between 10am and 4pm each day. There will be old church records available, a copy of the 1901 village census, details about the mills that were on the River Skerne and lots more information on the village history. if you have any old photos, records or information that you would like to include in the exhibition please contact either Harry Moses tel.321773 or David Lewis tel. 319196.Looking forward to seeing you all.