In this section we feature families or researchers who are trying to unravel the history of East Meon, especially family connections.

The latest edition is a link to a website created by Colin Green, a descendent of the Green family which started in about 1753 with John Green (who is not of East Meon) and over the centuries grew to be a predominant farming family in the area, mainly Ramsdean but some in East Meon, Langrish and Stroud. .. More>>

To follow some other trails ..... More>>

In 1949, an American picture newspaper sent a photographer to East Meon to see how plucky Britons were coping in the aftermath of the Second World War.

The images of PC Dennis Thorne, then our village bobby, conjure up an image of quaint and improbable country life as he tends to a girl with a hurt leg, visits the school playground, ropes an errant heifer and attends to a tramp .... More>>

Over thirty villagers contributed to an ambitious embroidery of East Meon which is now situated in the North Transept of All Saints Church. ....

The embroidery is displayed in an oak frame with vestry cupboards and shelving behind it. For a full account of the creation of the Millennium Embroidery..... More>>

Freddie Standfield wrote the definitive History of East Meon which can be bought at East Meon Stores or through the website of Phillimore Classics>>

Freddie Standlfield also wrote a short history of the village which you can find ..... More>>