Winsham Web Museum Home page

An annual event-the lighting of the Christmas Tree
(Picture by John Sullivan)

The Winsham Web Museum was launched in 2002 as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, after nearly two years in preparation. Since that time it has become much larger, and attracts visitors from many parts of the world. In 2016, at the time of the Queen's ninetieth birthday, it contains some seven thousand items and over four thousand pictures, and its content is continuously reviewed, updated and enlarged.
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The small rural parish of Winsham is located on the southern tip of Somerset, where it borders on Devon and Dorset and is home to about 750 people. It has its roots in Saxon times. The purpose of the web museum is to provide a digital archive of its history, record its present and to make this information easily accessible for the education and pleasure of all those who visit it, now and in the future.

To browse, scroll down, selecting the topic you wish to view by placing your mouse pointer over the picture, and left click. To find a particular item, go to the Site Map icon below and search.

(This web site is designed to be viewed with a Broadband connection of 6mbs and a Monitor resolution of 1077 x 664 pixels-slower Broadband speeds will result in illustrations loading more slowly).
Some web pages carry sound files so ensure that the sound on your device is switched on.
Winsham Web Museum cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy of information provided by contributors or opinions expressed by them. It is supported entirely by voluntary effort. It is not responsible for the content of external websites with whom the site may have links .Where photographs have been submitted for inclusion in the Winsham Web Museum the copyright is assumed to belong to the person who submitted it, or that they have authority to do so from the copyright holder.