Atherstone History Website Launched

We’ve been scouring the Internet for hours, promising ourselves for months, scanning through dusty books for what seemed like a millenia, and finally, we’ve gone and done it…

Welcome to the new Atherstone History website!
To get things started we’ve added a number of historic and public domain* articles. To browse these articles please see the navigation menu on the top right of the page. Go take a look around, we guarantee you’ll learn something new!

Whilst fasinating we realise the current articles here don’t do full justice to the history of this ancient and interesting town, so we have lined up a whole host of local Atherstone history pieces to address this, upcoming articles include;

• Atherstone Town Hall
• The Repington Family
• The Bracebidge Family
• The (original) Market Square
• The Town Hall, Corn Exchange
• Markets and Fairs, including Atherstones famous cheeses.
• St Marys Church
• The Augustine Monk Friary
• Atherstone Covent
• Atherstone (Merevale) WW2 Camp
• The Picturedrome
• The Atherstone Hatting Industry, patents included.
• The lost village of Mythe

And much, much more, all coming soon!

We intend to be pro-active with this website, adding and improving the information here as we go, so please, check back regularly, and remember all contributions are welcomed!

* please note that whilst some of the original source material on this website may be in the public domain it has been transcribed from an original source and edited for a modern audience. These transcribes, edits, and subsequent new material, remain the strict copyright of atherstonehistory.co.uk

See also: Nuneaton History, our new sister website.