Lustleigh Village Hall

Lustleigh Society

Email lustleighsec@gmail.com
Website http://www.lustleigh-society.org.uk/
The Lustleigh Society was formed in 1978 as a society for lectures on local history. In the years following, much material relating to the history of the village was donated to the society and stored in the village reading room, located in the Church House, an ancient building in the centre of the village. In the mid 1980’s this collection relocated to a small room in the Old Vestry, until 2006 when a larger room within the same building became available. There followed an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund – and other funding bodies – to completely renovate the room to archival storage standard. The archive re-opened in April 2009 having been completely reorganised and re-catalogued. The Archives of Lustleigh provide an important insight into the development of a village situated on the edge of Dartmoor, which has origins in prehistory.

Events from this organiser

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  • Lustleigh Society Talk

    Main Hall/Kit

    Dartmoor: A celebration of its people, places and wildlife Andrew Cooper
    From the sub-arctic wastes of the mid-winter high moor to people living in the most iconic wild worked landscape in Britain, featuring locals and celebrities, set against a background of astonishing natural beauty, a wealth of prehistory and abundance of wildlife – a popular speaker returns.

  • Lustleigh Society Talk

    Main Hall/Kit

    The Yanks are here and they’ve drunk all the beer: A talk by Bill Hardiman
    How did quiet Moretonhampstead react to the presence of US forces in World War Two? Bill explores the social and cultural consequences of several hundred young American men in town from a US Army engineering regiment on Mardon Down.