Copyright ¢ Anne Pamela Keegan 1999.

Anne Pamela Keegan has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be acknowledged as Author of this work. While she is happy for anyone to use this work for personal research, any commercial use or any use in future publications must first have written permission from the Author.

All this History was first published on 7/4/99, by Pamela and Mark Keegan who live in Gower on the western side of Swansea, in South Wales, U.K. The site name is taken from the name of a small bay in Gower, near Rhossili. Pamela and Mark feel that they are now unable to run and maintain their own website and have requested that their efforts, which they have so generously donated, be incorporated into the Cropredy Village website for posterity.

The main purpose of their site was to publish a record of the local history of a village in Oxfordshire during the 16th & 17th centuries, "The Town of Cropredy 1570 - 1640" written by Pamela Keegan. This has information about the village and it's families at that time, and includes their family trees.

The site was extended in January 2000 to include four books previously issued for the Cropredy Historical Society in the 1990s. It was further extended in May  2001 for "The Wheelwright's Apprentice." In October 2007 "Letters from Colin Shirley" was introduced.

• "The Cooknell's of Cropredy Green", a record of a young girl's life in Cropredy, born in 1896 and leaving the village at the age of 22.The record is gathered from letters to Pamela Keegan from America.
• "The Baker's and Carrier's Daughter", a spoken history of events from the turn of the century up to the 1970's, collected and edited by Pamela Keegan.
• "The Pettifers of Creampot Lane", a spoken history of a family as seen by two generations of it's women. They relate their lives from childhood to marriage.
• "My dear Harry", or The Letters of Mary Ann Fisher. This is a beautiful collection of letters, mostly from Mary Ann to her husband Harry, a tax collector, whom she had met when he was billeted in Cropredy in the 1870s. They are the property of Freda Wright, a descendant of Mary Anne's, who has also made some original drawings of Cropredy, as it would have been at that time.
• "The Wheelwright's Apprentice", is a spoken record of the youth and working life of Arthur Pettifer, continuing the story of Cropredy from 1910. He provided his Diary and Workbook, which will be printed later.
• "Letters from Colin Shirley", a history of the Shirley family and of Colin especially, who was a master Carpenter and Joiner mostly with the local builder Cherry & Son Ltd.,

(Edited and incorporated into the Cropredy Village website (September 2007) by Bryan Lillywhite).