Come along and get involved with your local history!
Latest Update – for May / June 2026
Thank you for your continued interest, involvement and support
ROPLEY PRAM RACE – COME AND SEE OUR STAND We hope to have a display of images and information about
- the Swelling Pond dig and also so
- images of views from the neighbourhood that you might be able to help tell us where they might be from.
LATEST NEWS AND ARTICLES – Please go to our Latest News page on the Website where you can find links to read, in full, these two latest articles, past articles, information about new archives, volunteering and events etc.
- How the wife of a pastry cook from Portsea became a significant landowner in Ropley – This article explains why and how we set about further researching female landowners in Ropley an article from a few years ago about North Street Farm.
- When I really met the Queen – Norma Day tirelessly devoted herself to the wellbeing of the Ropley Village and in 2019 she was recognised for her services to the community by becoming a recipient of the Royal Maundy money. She recorded her day with a lovely recollection of how she had always wanted to have tea with the Queen since childhood and then she did!
OUR RECENT ‘MEDSTEAD THROUGH TIME’ TALK From our series of talks about a local villages’ archaeology and history,this time it was about Medstead. The village is brimming with history and archaeology and clearly it was a very popular subject as the village hall was brimming too!
Thank you, to Emmanuel (Manni) Kirchner – Archaeologist, local historian and one of our steering group – for a very interesting talk. The evening raised over £600 for our coffers and will help support our research, fund workshops and the website and able us to hold other events – helping preserve our local history.
As we are a self-funding group we rely on these types of events and some local grants to continue this work.
GETTING INVOLVED IN YOUR LOCAL HISTORY
Follow the ‘Get Involved’ link from our website’s homepage to see volunteering options or come along to our Fortnightly Archive Workshop sessions where you share information or just have a chat about all thing’s local history. We’ll be in the Back Room in the village hall between 2-4pm every fortnight on a Thursday afternoon.
Thursday May 7th and 21st
Thursday June 4th and 18th
Thank you for your continued interest, involvement and support
Please contact us at Ropley History Network and Archive Steering Group
Ropley History Network and Archive Steering Group
www.ropleyhistory.org.uk ropleyhistory@gmail.com