Gestingthorpe History Group

The Gestingthorpe History Group is a prolific collection of local historians and they run an excellent website that describes the history of the region from the Ice Age to modern-day.

Belchamp Walter Watermill

The Belchamp Walter water mill is featured in Ashley's book "Our Mother Earth"

Gestingthorpe Roman Villa

The site of a Roman Villa was discovered in the fields outside Gestingthorpe by one of the farm hands working at Hill Farm.

Jack Mann, the grandfather of the local thatcher, unearthed some Roman roof tiles in 1948 when he was ploughing the fields close to Hill farm.

Books by Ashley Cooper

Ashley has written extensively about the region and its history.

• The Long Furrow
• Heart of our History
• Our Mother Earth - of the farrow born - illustrated by Benjamin Perkins

The works of George Washington Brownlow and a description of the water mill at Belchamp Walter are described in Our Mother Earth