Heritage Overton

07/11/2026

How much do you know about ‘Portals Paper-making’?
Learn more next Saturday:

📅 Saturday 14th November 2026
📍 Overton Community Centre

🕙 10.00am – Exhibition
🕥 10.30am – Talk: A Business History

🏭 PORTALS HERITAGE & MEMORIES PROJECT 🏭
Overton Mill: 1922–2022

📜 Join us for a fascinating look back at the history of Overton Mill and its place in our local heritage.

🎟️ Admission:
* Free for Heritage Overton members
* £5 for visitors, including light refreshments
💷 Cash payments, please.

Everyone is welcome! Come along, discover our local history, share memories and celebrate the heritage of Overton Mill.

We look forward to seeing you there! 😊



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Photo from English Heritage

06/11/2026

As promised: more photos of Overton Mill, this one was taken in 1925, compare it to yesterday’s post and photo taken in 1949

Find out more:
🏭 PORTALS HERITAGE & MEMORIES PROJECT 🏭
Overton Mill: 1922–2022

📅 Saturday 14th November 2026
📍 Overton Community Centre
🕙 10.00am – Exhibition
🕥 10.30am – Talk: A Business History

🎟️ Admission:
* Free for Heritage Overton members
* £5 for visitors, including light refreshments
💷 Cash payments, please.

05/11/2026

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📅 Saturday 14th November 2026
📍 Overton Community Centre

🕙 10.00am – Exhibition
🕥 10.30am – Talk: A Business History

🏭 PORTALS HERITAGE & MEMORIES PROJECT 🏭
Overton Mill: 1922–2022

📜 Join us for a fascinating look back at the history of Overton Mill and its place in our local heritage.

🎟️ Admission:
* Free for Heritage Overton members
* £5 for visitors, including light refreshments
💷 Cash payments, please.

Everyone is welcome! Come along, discover our local history, share memories and celebrate the heritage of Overton Mill.

We look forward to seeing you there! 😊



[email protected]

Photo from Historic England

29/10/2026

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🏭 PORTALS HERITAGE & MEMORIES PROJECT 🏭
Overton Mill: 1922–2022

📜 Join us for a fascinating look back at the history of Overton Mill and its place in our local heritage.

📅 Saturday 14th November 2026
📍 Overton Community Centre

🕙 10.00am – Exhibition
🕥 10.30am – Talk: A Business History

🎟️ Admission:

* Free for Heritage Overton members
* £5 for visitors, including light refreshments

💷 Cash payments, please.

Everyone is welcome! Come along, discover our local history, share memories and celebrate the heritage of Overton Mill.

We look forward to seeing you there! 😊



[email protected]

14/10/2026

🏭 PORTALS HERITAGE & MEMORIES PROJECT 🏭
Overton Mill: 1922–2022

📜 Join us for a fascinating look back at the history of Overton Mill and its place in our local heritage.

📅 Saturday 14th November 2026
📍 Overton Community Centre

🕙 10.00am – Exhibition
🕥 10.30am – Talk: A Business History

🎟️ Admission:

* Free for Heritage Overton members
* £5 for visitors, including light refreshments

💷 Cash payments, please.

Everyone is welcome! Come along, discover our local history, share memories and celebrate the heritage of Overton Mill.

We look forward to seeing you there! 😊



[email protected]

07/10/2026

Following the success of our Heritage Open Day, we’re delighted to announce that we have more history coming your way! 📜

This November, we’ll be exploring the History of Overton, with a special focus on Overton Mill.

📅 More details coming soon — watch this space! 👀

14/09/2026

🌿 What a wonderful Heritage Open Day! 🌿

Our village Heritage Open Day events, coordinated by the National Trust, were a great success, with visitors coming from near and far — even as far away as Bere Regis… and perhaps beyond! 😊

There was plenty to discover, with fascinating talks about the Community Centre and what stood here before, the village school, the New Inn and Post Office, as well as lots of hands-on activities.

✉️ Step back in time and write and post a Regency-style letter in our mock-up Post Office — on the very site where Jane Austen herself posted her letters.

🥾 Follow in Jane Austen’s footsteps along the trails she would have taken around the village and across to Steventon.

🍃 Get creative with nature, with leaf printing and a chance to explore the nature table in what was once the Boys’ classroom of the Victorian school — which finally closed its doors in 1978.

🪁 And there was plenty of play! Visitors could try traditional games including hopscotch and skipping in what was once the school playground.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along, took part, shared their memories and helped bring the village’s history to life. It was lovely to see so many people enjoying and discovering our heritage. ❤️

12/09/2026

Learn more about your heritage. Come along to the Community Centre Today & Tomorrow

12/09/2026

Did you know the left part of Overton Community Centre was originally the headmaster’s house? Find out more about the life of the building at Overton’s Heritage Open Days events this weekend! Sat 10–5, Sun 11–5. See you there!