Publications

The museum has published a pamphlet entitled; ORFORD Off the beaten track.

This comprises 'A walk through Orford, based on an Elizabethan map, providing a taste of the rich history of this attractive Suffolk village.'

Price £2.00 a copy.
Available from shops in Orford.

The museum has published a book The Building of Orford Castle – a translation from the Pipe Rolls which tells the story of the building of the castle by king Henry II between 1165 and1173.

Price £10.50 a copy, plus £2 post and packing. Cheques payable to Orford Museum.

Picture of front page of 'The Building of Orford Castle'

Issue 1 Autumn 2003		Issue 2 Autumn 2004
	Invasion Fever: A Signal Station at Orford Castle, (Part 1) John Green, Orford's Arctic Hero The Romans in Suffolk, a report on a WEA day course		Invasion Fever: A Signal Station at Orford Castle (Part 2) Memories of Orford Castle, Suffolk, 1943 Vandalism at Orford Castle, 1945 John Green - an update

Issue 3 Winter 2004		Issue 4 Spring 2005
	The Princess of Wales Visits Orford Butley Modern School Reunion New Light is Shed on the Walls of Orford Castle: a day with English Heritage		Orford Museum - the Story So Far Some Observations on Orford Castle Sailor, Verger and Friend - Gus Hacon (1857-1956) The 'Old Poor Law' in Orford Ettie Partridge - an Appreciation

Issue 5 Autumn 2005		Issue 6 Summer 2006
	Chillesford Lodge: a nineteenth-century model farm Meet my Orford ancestors - and others! Orford Museum: recent acquisitions		Captain's Wood, Sudbourne More memories of Sudbourne Hall The search for the Hospital of St Leonard

Issue 7 Autumn 2006		Issue 8 Spring 2007
	Danger - River Ore! The town centre properties of John Stile, son of Joan Richman of Gedgrave. The Buckle family of Orford at a time of religious change. Some Orford characters. More Orford characters.		Oyez! Oyez! sam Smy, town crier Recollections of Mrs H Smy of Orford The making of a gentleman The Broom: rabbits and the loss of a sailor's path

Issue 9 Autumn 2007		Issue 10 Spring 2008
	Lost opportunity or lucky escape: two Orford port schemes of 1813 and 1836 (part 1) A Land Girl at Garden House, Sudbourne Hall Castle House, Orford The Orford Electric Light and Power Company Limited		Elizabethan flood defences on Orford Ness Polo at Chillesford Lost opportunity or lucky escape: two Orford port schemes of 1813 and 1836 (Part 2)