This is a website for a Local History society. We are proud of the contribution that local historians have made to our understanding of history, and therefore do not feel the urge to pontificate about historicity, postmodernism or national politics: we simply wish to understand this part of East Anglia. Our raw materials are the pieces of primary evidence that we have inherited. Our simple craft is to try to explain and make sense of the bewildering mass of curious information and trivia that have come down to us from our ancestors. This website is part of that effort. This Website opened quietly in midAugust 2003. Even now, almost no other site refers to it and it has received no official sanction or blessing from anywhere, other than the F&DLHS itself. There have been no grants or sponsorship. Remarkably, however, despite the lack of publicity, its popularity has been gradually but steadily building up over the year and the site receives around three hundred visits a day. We were naturally hoping that Essex and Suffolk educational establishments would use us, as the curriculum is increasingly demanding the use of local resources in the teaching of history. This has not happened, but in fact most of the visitors we get are intent on understanding the history of the place they live in or that their ancestors inhabited.

Address: Orchard House,Foxearth,Essex,co10 7JG
Telephone: (+44) 1787 311913.
Website: http://www.foxearth.org.uk/