Kevin Heritage of Wheatley Park School has created an excellent website chronicling the history of the Holton Park Estate, now the site of Wheatley Park School. It covers eras from Roman and Saxon times to the present day, and contains many fascinating documents and images.
Of particular interest are two videos, of which part 2 features a commentary by the last Rector of Holton, David Wood-Robinson http://holtonparkarchive.com/index.php/misc/holton-park-history-documentary/
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Fascinating to learn the history of our surroundings,well done and thank you!
This link hasn’t worked for quite a long time now.
Kevin Heritage (responsible for the Holton Archive site) explains: “I am afraid that the whole site was lost about 2 years ago.
It is a long sad story and we have got to produce a new website over the coming year.”
Hopefully we’ll be able to reinstate the link then.
Fortunately, it appears to live on here archived for all to see, which is great so now I can read on!
https://web.archive.org/web/20141115202021/http://holtonparkarchive.com/index.php/misc/holton-park-history-documentary/
The original links are still not available, but “Holton Park, A Short History” by Kevin Heritage can be found as a pdf file via the link on https://www.wheatleypark.org/index.php/history-of-the-school