In 2020 many places from Plymouth to South Yorkshire will be involved in the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower. This page looks at the ways in which previous anniversaries were marked from 1920. (The 1820 anniversary was celebrated in the USA but not in England.)

The finely sculpted effigy of Louisa Blanche Foljambe with her baby son rests on a tomb chest in the north-west corner of St Mary’s Church, Tickhill.

Review of The Yorkshire Church Notes, Sir Stephen Glynne (1825 - 1874)

Details of the services of the Wesleyan Day Schools Tickhill which met in the Methodist Schoolroom

The Friary at Clarel Hall, or 'Clarel Monastery' highlights the link between the Clarel family and the Friary. Nearly 300 years after the Friary was dissolved various details of the original building were noted.

Looking into the history of the Foljambe family and their right to appoint Tickhill's vicars until 1921...

Summary of a placement Roseanne Lawton did with The Churches Conservation Trust based on the churchyard of the Wentworth Old Church, to extend the Trust's knowledge and understanding of the graveyard and help this historic site remain open and cared for.

As well as conducting the Population Census in 1851, the government decided to gather information on religious worship and education provision in that year too, the only time this was attempted.

A look at the monuments in Tickhill church connected with different generations of the de Estfeld or Eastfield family who were prominent benefactors of the church.

The Fitzwilliam Tomb in St Mary’s Church, as part of a larger restoration project was dismantled for conservation, Exposing human remains, packed tightly into a small chamber measuring. An osteoarchaeologist was called in to investigate the find!

The four people, Richard Fitzwilliam, wife Elizabeth Clarell, son Thomas Fitzwilliam, and his wife Lucy Neville who were all born in the 15th Century, and whose remains were buried in 'Fitzwilliam Tomb'.

Details about one of the leading Methodists at the time when the Schoolroom was built in 1845, Charles Turner, born in 1793 in Rossington a druggist with a business in the centre of Tickhill, had to sell up and leave Tickhill in what seemed to be mysterious circumstances...

William the Conqueror invited Jews to settle in England. Until their expulsion in 1290 by Edward I, Jews lived under a series of restrictions imposed by monarchs...

A look at the construction of, and the surviving Masons' Marks on Fourteenth/Fifteenth Century Stonework of St Mary's Church, Tickhill

There were some quite early Anglo-Saxon churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary during the seventh century, but at that time dedications to the saints Peter and Paul outnumbered all the rest put together.

The fact that not all churches are aligned directly eastwards has led to a search for explanations.

The number of different feast days celebrated in connection with the Virgin Mary meant that, in the survey of dedications and church alignments, they were considered together in a quite separate category.

The building of the organ at Tickhill by Charles Brindley of Sheffield in 1857, one of the first he completed, marking a major step forward in English organ construction.

A fire was discovered in the roof of St Mary's in 1880 - taken from the British Newspaper Archive

Royal Arms in Parish Churches were erected as tokens of loyalty to the Crown and to the Sovereign as the earthly head of the Church. Most of them date from after 1534.

This magnificent 14th century illuminated manuscript was produced in Worksop Priory and was sold to the USA in 1932

A history of the ringing of the church bells from the early 19th century to today

Betty Hill describes funerals in the first half of the 20th century

From the mid 19th century a fashion grew for prosperous families to install memorial stained glass windows in churches

Installed 25 years ago, the plaque marks the place where Tickhill's first Methodist Chapel once stood.

Details about the christening robe dated 1740 -1770 which belonged to the Laughton family of Eastfield Farm