A ploughing match at Market Lavington

The following extract appeared in The Cottagers Companion for September 1837. This appears to have been quite a local concern judging by the premium winners. But it seems even the losers were award...

A view from The Cherry Orchard

This is another of our 19th century sketches by Philip Wynell Mayow. Philip was the brother of Mayow Wynell Mayow who was Vicar of market Lavington for about twenty years from the 1830s to the 1850s. ...

The unchanging church

Church buildings do change – but alterations are much deliberated over and are, in any case, quite rare. A church building often looks very much the same, even from almost 200 years ago. And here i...

The east end of the High Street in 1837

Yes, this is another of the fantastic sketches by Philip Wynell Mayow, brother of Market Lavington’s vicar back in the first year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Philip, our artist, was able to set him...

Market Lavington High Street in 1837

This is another sketch by Philip Wynell Mayow, brother of the then Vicar of Market Lavington. This shows the High Street. Philip was standing more or less outside where the Workmans’ Hall now sta...

The Church and the Cottage

Today we feature another of the wonderful sketches by Philip Wynell Mayow. This one, like many of them, was drawn in 1837. We are looking at the northwest corner in this image. Our artist was stand...

A fantastic sketch

Some little while ago we managed to acquire some sketches of Market Lavington, most dating from the 1830s. They were drawn by Philip Wynell Mayow whose brother, Mayow Wynell Mayow, was Vicar of Market...

Pencil and Paint

Our blog title today is about one section of the Museum Miscellany this year. The event takes places on Saturday 3rd October in Market Lavington’s wonderful Community Hall. Tickets, for the event, o...

The William Cambridge Engine

Back in 1837 William Cambridge was an iron founder, agricultural engineer and inventor based where the Workmans’ Hall now stands in Market Lavington. Amongst the products made there were steam engin...