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The Local History Recorder for Campsea Ashe, Mrs Tina Morford,
writes:
The role of the local history recorder is to 'record the present
and also be on the lookout for historic material which might be
lost'. I am always grateful to those who take the time and trouble
to give me such material, and stress, that with their permission, I
can always make copies of any item so that the original can be
returned back to the owner!
Whilst the growing trunk of records/history lies in my
possession, I have never considered them to be mine! They belong to
the village and would always be handed on to the next local history
recorder or to the Record Office in Ipswich. Please may I again
urge anyone who has such material to consider allowing me to have a
copy of it! it would be well looked after and would provide
invaluable historic information for future historians and
generations to come! As I have said before, anything of the past,
newspaper articles, photographs-even a shop receipt or rail ticket-
is of historic interest.
Thank you, Tina Morford.
Please click onto contacts at the top left of this page for Tina's
'phone No. and email address.
HISTORY OF CAMPSEA
ASHE NAME.
CAMPSEA ASHE was, at the time of the
Domesday Book c1066/1078, two villages, the larger being Campesia
meaning a small island, with field or enclosure upon it, and the
adjoining village written as Esce.
When the two became one is a matter for more research.
The spelling of Campsea Ashe has throughout the ages evolved from
Campesia to Campesse c1211, Campeseye Ass c1254, and variously
Capesea, Capsey, Caumpes and more recently Campsey, prior to todays
spelling of Campsea Ashe.
In the Domesday Book Esce is mentioned immediately after Campesia,
again the spelling has changed throughout the years, being
variously Ahys, Ayssh, Ayssch juxta Campsey, Ashe juxta Campessy,
Ash next Campsey and eventually Campsea Ashe. In 1249 it is
recorded that the monks of Campes obtained a free warren from
Ass.