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Latest Issue 42 Winter 2023-24 
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     Beautiful Box      Winter 2023-2024   Issue 42 

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The environment and its beauty is an integral part of Box's history. For many years the Box Parish Council has encouraged residents to do their bit, including participating in the Best Kept Village contests and winning twice.
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People Index
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Your Family Remembered
New Project for Historic Box Cemetery
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Clothier Family
Box Railway Stationmaster
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Jane Wiltshire
Predecessors of Strong and Pictor quarry families
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Sokell Family
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Story of a railway family
​Places Index ​​
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​Hazelbury Hoard
Civil War gold coins found
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Highfield House
Site of the Box Fair
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Sheep Dips & Wagon Washes
Remains of rural Box
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​Ashley Rifle Range
Representation of Box Firing Range ​
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Modern Box History Series
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​Cars & Trains
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Disaster on Box Bridge
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​Schooling in Box
When St Trinians arrived
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Modern Clubs
Keeping a Record
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New Millennium
How we celebrated 2000
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Readers' Contributions
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We are a not-for-profit Community website for people who are interested in the history of Box village, in the county of Wiltshire, and its surrounding hamlets. You can record the story of you and your ancestors, correct and add to our articles via the Contact tab or by our email: boxpeopleandplaces@yahoo.co.uk.
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We have numerous memories and questionss from readers:
​Jack Walters' Missing Years
​Remembering Ossie Butt
Wharf Mound Memories
Darts at The Lamb Inn 1948-49
Droving in Recent Years
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We are grateful to all who give us their recollections of the history of the village.
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We are grateful to all who give us their recollections of the history of the village.
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