Welcome to Stockland!
The Village
Stockland is a village in East Devon, near the towns of Honiton and Axminster. With a parish population of around 600, this thriving community is centred around the The King's Arms Inn, the Victory Hall with its attached cricket pitch and tennis courts, the Church Of St Michael and All Angels, and Stockland Primary School.
Although, unfortunately, the village does not have a shop, it does have a small Post Office which offers all the regular services, selling stamps, carpets and floor coverings (true!), etc.
The village boasts a long history - there is evidence of Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman occupation in the area. On nearby Stockland Hill (now most famous for a rather large television mast) ancient earthworks may still be seen.
See the Tour for pictures of this beautiful village.
The Stockland Web Site Wants YOU!
If you have any material - historical information, anecdotes, stories of Stockland people, etc., that you would like to share with the world through this site, please get in touch.
We would also be very interested to hear from any Stockland (or nearby) residents that would be interested in writing for a Stockland-related blog.
The Web Site
The Stockland Web Site is celebrating its first decade, having been around in various guises since 1996. Of late, development has been slightly hampered by the writer having moved to Australia early in 2001 - no, he didn't damage the bridge (see Tour), he emigrated to be with his (Australian) wife, whom he met through this very site - when she was researching her family history.
In 2004, rennovations began on the site, including a move towards compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
The tour has been re-engineered and extended (Easter 2006). For those who are interested, information on the tour is available here.
The Stockland Web Site is generated by three Perl programmes - one for the Tour, one for the Genealogical Message Board, and one that produces all the rest of the pages. All content is created on-the-fly from records in a MySQL database.
Site News
- February 2007: a new domain, stockland.org.uk is registered. This is done for two reasons:
- Concerns over reliability of .cx DNS root servers.
- .org.uk suffix gives firmer sense of identity - Stockland is in the UK, not Christmas Island, as could be inferred from the .cx suffix.
- January 2007: site moves to new servers in the USA. See the Impressum for details.
- April 2006: Tour re-written and extended!
- April 2006: A new page has been added, dedicated to the People of Stockland. Contributions are most welcome - please contact us.
- April 2006: Google site search added.
- April 2006: More anti-spam measures added to Stockland Genealogical Message Board.
