The Easterton Fruit Harvest

There had to be good reasons for a large jam factory to develop in Easterton. In the nineteenth century there were several small fruit preserving enterprises with, perhaps, that run by Samuel Saunders...

Samuel Moore of Easterton

Samuel Moore is a famous son of Easterton. Easterton, of course, was once a part of Market Lavington parish. Market Lavington Museum is seeking more information about Samuel. Samuel Moore came to fam...

Garden sprayers – Market Lavington Museum

Once upon a time, Market Lavington, Easterton and Fiddington were all fruit growing areas. A new display of insecticide sprayers at Market Lavington Museum remembers this time. The sprayers were al...

Market Gardening at Fiddington

Most people who live in Market Lavington or Easterton will think of Fiddington as the area with a forty year old housing estate called Fiddington Clay. In fact, Fiddington was a long thin strip betwee...