Hillam Village

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Funded by "Awards for All" and published Autumn 2004, the paperback volume has 119 pages and contains many black and white illustrations, maps and plans.

The 10 chapter headings are:
Early History
How Hillam got its name
Hillam - facts and figures from the parish records of St Wilfrid's church, Monk Fryston
Farms
The Chapel
Rose Lea School
Wartime - remembered and recorded
Some Distinguished Hillamites
Ringtree Lights
Hillam and beyond - transport links

The book was launched at the Community Centre, Monk Fryston
on Saturday 16th October 2004

by the Rev'd David Wilbourne, former resident of Hillam, successful author
and Rector of St Wilfrid's 1985-1991.
HILLAM, A VILLAGE REMEMBERED is now completely sold out. However, for anyone wishing to see a copy, there are various options.
Hillam Historians have a reference copy, which is available to personal callers only (not by post) for a two-week loan.
The book is available on CD for £3 (+ £1 p&p) as an Adobe Acrobat file which can be read on screen or printed out.  Cds are only produced on request.
For either of the above options, contact Paul Scholey, West Park Farm, Hillam Lane, Burton Salmon, LS25 5JZ. Tel 01977 672043; email paulscholey2@btinternet.com

The book is available to read at the following local public libraries: Sherburn-in-Elmet, Selby, Pontefract, Knottingley, Wakefield.

It is also available at three other local institutions: Pontefract Museum, the Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Leeds), and the Borthwick Institute (University of York).
The six national Legal Deposit Libraries each have a copy. These are:
The British Library
The National Library of Wales
The National Library of Scotland
The Library of Trinity College, Dublin
The University Library, Cambridge
The Bodleian Library, Oxford