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Yateley Local History - a Time Line

For those of you who like to read your history in a some sort of logical chronological order here is a list of the articles in date order.

Obviously many of the articles span several centuries. Therefore a start date and end date have been assigned - often not precisely.

Start date	End date	Fact & Fiction
Pre-history		Was there a Bronze Age Urnfield burial site at Moor Park?
9th	10th	Did the Danes burn down the Saxon Church?
11th	21st	Yateley was a rural backwater where nothing ever happened?
13th	16th	Is Yateley‘s mediaeval wealth evidence of fish-farming?
15th	15th	Was Yateley Hall a mediaeval nunnery?
16th	16th	Did Yateley have a network of secret tunnels?
16th	20th	Rural families lived in the same village over many centuries
1600	1605	Was the Gunpowder Plot hatched in Yateley?
1650s	1670s	Was the Polyglot Bible written by a Yateley man?
16th	17th	Which Yateley royal cupmaker made St Peter's Crystal Cup?
17th	1841	Was Parson Darby a real highwayman?
18th	19th	Did a Yateley man invent anchovy sauce?
1791	1870	Captured naval officer escapes from Napoleonic jail
1810	1870	Which Yateley man first studied at a US university?
1814	1878	Was a famous hymnwriter born in Yateley?
1816	1819	Did bull-baiting take place on Yateley Green?
1853	1879	Did murderer Charles Peace drink at the White Lion?
1871	1960	Where was the earliest electric organ hereabouts?
1877	1883	Were the Altar Frontals made from Yateley silkworms?
1890s	1921	Did Thames Valley Traction run the first bus service?
1918	1921	Did Jan Paderewski live at Barclay House?
1927	1927	Did an Ashanti king visit Yateley Hall?
1996	1996	A Stone Curlew sighted at Blackbushe?

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