This website created by Valerie Martin, contains scenes from her home village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

Manor of Findon

Findon Place early in the twentieth century.

THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — the website containing everything you are ever likely to want to know about the Manor of Findon.

Copyright Valerie Martin 2008

Findon Place 2000.

Articles in chronological date order —

  The Year 1000 AD in Findon
1086 — Domesday Findon

 1478 — A January Wedding

 1643 — The Lost Feather Bed
Early 1700s — The Dower House — Holmbush
Fox-hunting in the Findon Countryside in the Past
1741 — Findon's Norroy King at Arms
1742 — John Cheale's Merry Christmas
1751 — William Green Claims His Findon Inheritance
1787/1801 — William Richardson — Lord of the Manor of Findon
 
MARGESSON FAMILY
     1872 — The Margesson Family of Findon Place

      Colonel William George Margesson's  Horses (1821-1911)
     Sunny Days at the Manor of Findon for the Margessons
     1911 — The End of an Era — Colonel William George Margesson (1821-1911)
     1914 — Daisy Minns — Below Stairs  
     The Great War and the Margesson Family
     1936 — Richard David Margesson Returns to his Roots in Findon
     1936 — Richard David Margesson's First Encounter with Mann the Chauffeur
     1936 — Richard David Margesson's First Evening with his Uncle
     1941 — The End of Another Era — Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Margesson (1865-1941)
     The Crafty Chauffeur
     The Lord of the Manor's Rolls Royce
     1977 — Richard Somerset Margesson's Memories of the Manor of Findon
 
The Middlemas Years
1985 — The Golden Dolphin
 

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THIS IS FINDON — was launched by Valerie Martin in January 1999 and will grow to be a historical record of life in Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

E:mail: valeriemartin@findonvillage.com