This fine looking fellow is Joseph Marriott, one of the many 'Woodborough Worthies' profiled on the site
AFTER NINE years of effort, a local history team in Woodborough has unveiled its new website covering the village’s history and heritage.
The Woodborough Heritage site – http://www.woodborough-heritage.org.uk/ – now provides over 200 articles, equivalent in length to about 700 A4 pages. The site’s extensive photographic archive, totalling over 4500 images, is used to illustrate these articles.
At the time of Domesday, Woodborough was a hamlet of 200 souls on the edge of Sherwood Forest. It was owned by three Saxon thanes who were promptly dispossessed by William the Conqueror. Articles in the website illustrate how Woodborough boomed in the 19th century, becoming a centre of framework knitting, and then followed market gardening to take advantage of the fertile soil of a sheltered valley.
Little change followed until the 1970s, when two new estates doubled the population of the village to the present number of about 2000, but the main part of Woodborough remained unchanged and is principally a Conservation Area.
All aspects of the village’s heritage have been covered in the website, which has in the last few months had its content overhauled, extended and improved. Material has now been carefully regrouped into main topic areas, which can be expanded through menus to simplify retrieval.
* Thanks to John Hoyland for this article *