Since early 2020, Forncett History Group has published regular short articles in the village magazine, the Forncett Flyer. These articles have now been collected here on our new blog - Forncett History Notes. This blog offers the opportunity for these articles, and other news from the Group, to be read more widely and also provides a forum for us to publish short articles which don't fit easily elsewhere within the structure of the website. Please share this new page with anyone who you feel might be interested. If you would like to be added to our email distribution list please Contact Us and then you will receive an alert when any new article appears.
For those of us who enjoy cycling, the early days of Lockdown in April were a real joy with almost no traffic on the roads. However, that was the norm for the residents of Forncett over a hundred years ago before the car had arrived here. Mass production of bicycles began in the 1880s and the bike began to offer...
This year is the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth (7 April 1770). So, this is a good time to remember that our village of Forncett featured in Wordsworth's early life and especially in that of his younger sister, Dorothy.
The Safety Valve pub stood next to Forncett Station (opposite the new development built on the old CPS site). The pub, which opened as the Railway Inn in 1851, closed its doors on 3rd December 1970 and was subsequently demolished. Unfortunately, we have remarkably little information about the Safety Valve during the 20th Century.