Wargrave Local History Society | Wargrave

Welcome to

Wargrave Local History Society

Founded in 1981

Church Street, circa 1905, seen from Greyhound.jpg

Next event

Tuesday October 13th 2026

Our forgotten local WW2 Airfield
Angus Ross and Richard Miller
During WW2 a field at Crazies Hill became an operational grass airfield. One use was for the first flights of Spitfires manufactured by local people. The talk illustrates all the operations that were undertaken here

News

Meeting programme

New 'From the archives' item added

A special piece of equipment made by pupils at the Piggott School

Link to page

July local history visit

Hinton Ampner

Peter Delaney

15 July 2026

July is the time of year when members of the Society make a visit to a place of historic interest, this year the location was Hinton Ampner, between Winchester and Petersfield in Hampshire

View as pdf

June events

Wargrave Festival
Peter Delaney

27th and 28th June 2026

The activities of the Society in alternate years are linked to the Wargrave Village Festival. For 2026, we had a stand at the Fete and organised an Historic Village Walk

View as pdf