Despite its small size the village had a thriving tourist industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local traders produced visitor's guides…

In 2015/16 St Margaret's History Society was awarded a grant by the Heritage Lottery Funded 'Up on the Downs' Project to carry out a programme of oral…

St Margaret's was both bombed and directly shelled from gun sites in France in the Second World War. Over 600 shells landed on the village and many…

Portal House is one of the oldest buildings in the village. Current research on its origins suggests that it may have been built as a private house…

This is an album of over 300 photos of the village taken or collected between 1910 and 1980 by Gordon Denoon. It appears on the website by kind…