The Object of the Society is to provide a common meeting ground for the study and discussion of, and research into, history in general, and of the local area in particular.

President - The Lord Remnant
Chairman - Peter Halman
Vice Chairman - (Vacant)
Treasurer/Membership Secretary -
Secretary - Tel: 0118 940 3121
Programme Secretary - Helen Perry
Committee members:-
- David Ball
- Sarah Houghton
- Mary Owen
- Wendy Smith

We are happy to try and respond (in our own good time!) to requests for information about people and places in the history of Wargrave parish. Please email us at:

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The Society supports the work of the Wargrave Heritage Trust

The Society is affiliated to the Berkshire Local History Association. and is a member of the British Association for Local History.

For more British History background, explore the BBC's Web Pages by clicking here:

Search the reports of meetings for particular topics of interest

Click this image for information about the Dedication of the B-17 Flying Fortress Memorial on 13th Nov 2014

The Society's third book was published on Saturday 25th June 2011
Price £9.95
Read about and order our books here.

The Harriette Cooke Smith Photo Albums
In 2009, we acquired three albums of photographs which feature (inter alia) scenes of Wargrave from the 1870s belonging to Harriette Cooke Smith - see some images here.

We are always interested in adding to our collection of pictures, documents, books, maps etc relating to Wargrave, so if you have anything that you think may be of interest, please contact us.

Reports of Recent Meetings:

January 2017 February 2017

March 2017 April 2017

May 2017

Reports of previous meetings are held in an Archive

Meetings take place at 8 p.m. in
The Pavilion on the Recreation Ground
(Click for a map)

Subscriptions: Individual £9 ; Family £12 ; Concessions £8 ; Visitors are welcome - £3 per meeting

2017
April 11	George Rawlinson	Wargrave 535 George, now operations director for the RNLI, grew up in Wargrave, and shared some of his memories of the village at that time with us.
May 9	Peter Trout	Airships Peter told us about the early history of airships
WARGRAVE VILLAGE FESTIVAL
June 11		Historic Village Walk
June 15	Thomas Plant	"More about Antiques" (Click here for information on ticket availability for both these events)
July 19	Local History Visit	Kingston Bagpuize This year we will have an afternoon visit to Kingston Bagpuize House, an interesting manor house and gardens that was also featured in the television series Downton Abbey
August 10	Local History Walk	Wallingford As an additional 'social' event, we will have a guided afternoon walk of historic Wallingford
September 12	Speaker t.b.a.	The Berkshire Women's Institute There have been several branches of the WI within the parish of Wargrave, and within the County as a whole their history stretches back a century or so
October 10	Martin Andrews	Fox-Talbot in Reading William Henry Fox-Talbot is famous for his pioneering work on photography. What is less well known is his connection to the Reading area, and Martin will tell us about the town's place in the development of photography.
November 14	John Harrison	Living Heritage John leads the team of bell ringers at All Saints, Wokingham, and he will look at the social history of bell ringing and the lives and times of ringers in an English market town from the 18th century to the modern era.
December 12	Christmas Party	Christmas Party
2018
January 9	Mick Pope	Sporting Traditions in Wargrave Mick has belonged to a wide variety of sports teams within the village, and will recount some of his memories of Wargrave's sporting activities
February 13	Catherine Sampson	Berkshire Churches Catherine will give us a glimpse at some of the many historical, unusual and sometimes hidden churches and churchyards, including some of our most historic small churches, in and around Berkshire and the people associated with them.
March 13	A G M	The Annual General Meeting