THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — these Findon Chronicles were created by Valerie Martin and contain scenes from her home village of Findon,
West Sussex, U.K.    Everyday stories about real people.

Muntham Court

Map Reference TQ 111

THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — the website containing everything you are ever likely to want to know about Muntham Court.

Copyright Valerie Martin 2012

Articles in chronological order —

Romano-British — The Temple at Findon
 1700s — Viscount Montague's Curse
 
The William Frankland Story —
        1765 — William Frankland (1720-1805) Arrives in Findon
        1765/1805 — The Findon Inventor
        1790s — The Muntham Windmill
        1798 — Royalty in the Area during the time of William Frankland
        1805 ― "I am descended From Oliver Cromwell"
        1806 — The Inbetween Years at Muntham Court
 
Marchioness of Bath (1804-1892)

        1850 — The Upper Classes Do Not Live in Red Brick

        1800s — Gardener's Paradise
 
The Lord Henry Frederick Thynne (1832-1904) and his wife
       1903 — Life at Muntham under Lord Henry Frederick Thynne
       1907 — The Mysterious Statue
 

 Portrait of Cobden Farm Pre War

 
 Life at Muntham under Colonel Ulric Oliver Thynne
         1897/1997 — Jack Long's Muntham
         c.1905 — The Mystery of Ivy Cottages
         1909 - Marjory
         1918 — The Puzzle of the Muntham Percherons
         1925 — The Shooting of Edward Wormald Thynne
         1936 — The Most Beautiful Findon Dιbutante
         The Findon Airstrip
         1948-1955 — Nellie and Harold Heard at Muntham Court
           1946 - 1957 — Albert and Jessie Hards
 
        Seville Gates Story:-
        1938 — Mystery of the Seville Cathedral Gates
        1940s — The War Years and the Seville Cathedral Gates
        1998 — Mystery of the Seville Cathedral Gates is Solved  
 
1952 — The Colonel Remarries
      
1958 — She Nearly Lived in Findon — Diana Dors
1958 — Exploring the Colonel's Mansion
 1961 — The Demise of a Great House
1960s/70s — Tanya
1973 —The Pigeon House
The Colonel's Signet Ring?      
2004 — Muntham Today
 
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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.

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