Chronology
2100 to 750 BC            A Bronze Age scraper and flints were recovered during construction of a sewer pipe near Lower Conygre Pit. 
750 BC until AD 43   The sites of two barrows generally known as Wallmead I and II near Wallmead Farm. Bronze Age artefacts recovered and four cremation burials. Iron Age occupation was also indicated by a single pit and pottery. 
AD 43 to AD 410  A collection of finds recovered during the construction of the houses at Lansdown Crescent in 1937 including Roman pottery, a bronze pin, and coins. A late Roman fibula found behind Lansdown View during drain construction in 1931.
1068  The Lord of the Manor at this time was Gonnerd and he sublet two parts to Apius, alias Ape, and Sibus alias Sibe.
1085  Timsbury recorded in the Doomsday Book as Temesbare and Timeserie. The Bishop of Coutance, who accompanied William the Conquerer, held 280 manors in the King’s name. One of these was Timsbury. By the time of the completion of the Domesday Book, the tenant in capite was Odo Flandrensis and both parts of the manor were held by William de Montcelli as subtenure. 
1100 Godfrey, Bishop of Bath, receives from Adelais, the second wife of Henry 1, the manor of Timsbury to give to the Clunaic Priory of Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire.
1200 William de Whaddone is Lord of the Manor.
1212 Ralph de Waddone holds Timsbury for one knight’s fee.
1232 Henry de Waddone pays 40 marks for the advowson (In effect this means the right to nominate a person to hold a church office in a parish.) of St Mary’s Chapel.
1247  Prior Simon of Monkton Farleigh gives Timsbury land to Adam the Master of St John the Baptist Hospital, Bath. This included the mill. 
1297  Henricus – first record of an incumbent for St Mary’s Church 
1331  Sir Michael de Waddon is Lord of Timsbury Manor. 
1338  Richard de la Felde is rector. 
1344 William de Edyndon buys Timsbury Manor.
1350  Robert Mercoke is rector. 
1350  William Bey is rector. 
1361  Nicholas de Carscombe is rector. 
1362  John Pratt is rector. 
1403  Sir Ayler de St Amand is Lord of the Manor. 
1404  Richard Rycheman is rector. 
1404  Eleanor de St Amand, widow of Sir Ayler de St Amand, is now Lady of the Manor. 
1406  Stephen Austwell is rector. 
1407  John Meire is rector. 
1412  Roger Bere is rector. 
1416  John Grove is rector. 
1441  Sir William Palton is Lord of the Manor. 
1442  John Andrew is rector. 
1449  William Vylers (alias Baker) is rector. He was formerly rector of Bradford upon Avon.
1457 William Cary is rector.
1457  Sir John Cheyne is Lord of the Manor. 
1483  Nicholas Lisle is Lord of the Manor. 
1483  William Danyel is rector. 
1527  Gideon Hackluyt is rector. 
1527  Thomas Lisle is Lord of the Manor. 
1546  Partition of Lisle estates and John Sambourne becomes Lord of the Manor. First of thrteen generations of Sambournes as Lords of the Manor. 
1559  Richard Sheppard is rector. 
1560  Barnaby Sambourne born. 
1571  John Sambourne is Lord of the Manor. 
1571  The mention of coal mining in Timsbury. (John Sambourne’s will) 
1575  John Sambourne dies and Barnaby Sambourne becomes Lord of the Manor. 
1579  Swithan Sambourne is rector (until 1625). Patron was Queen Elizabeth 1. 
1594  Barnaby Sambourne knighted by Queen Elizabeth 1. 
1610  Details of three coal pits in Timsbury. 
1610  Sir Barnaby Sambourne dies and Thomas Sambourne becomes Lord of the Manor. 
1625  Alex Agasman is rector. 
1630 John Gean, first recorded death of a Timsbury coalminer. 
1631 First record of coal miners cottages being built in Timsbury.
1636 Thomas Sambourne dies and Maudley Sambourne becomes Lord of the Manor.
1643 Richard Baber is rector.
1649 William Allen granted sole lease to mine coal in Timsbury Manor.
1654 John Templar of Timsbury in trouble for importing beer into the village from Bristol to sell at the Timsbury Revel. 
1657 Timsbury made up of approximately 25-30 dwellings as identified in a Timsbury Court Roll. These included two bake houses and a shop.
1675 Thomas Paul is rector 
1679  Maudley Sambourne dies and Thomas Sambourne becomes Lord of the Manor. 
1686 Jacob Shute is rector. 
1688 Bartholomew Deeke is rector. 
1715 Captain Thomas Sambourne dies and his son Thomas Sambourne becomes Lord of the Manor. 
1723 Thomas Sambourne dies, unmarried and heirless. His sister Margaret succeeds him and her husband Anthony Palmer becomes Lord of the Manor.
1730 Anthony Palmer dies and his son Thomas Palmer becomes Lord of the Manor. 
1731 Thomas Rich is rector. 
1750 Hayeswood Colliery is in operation. 
1750 William Fernyhough is rector. 
1756 Six new bells put in St Mary’s Church, paid for by Thomas Sambourne. 
1759 Thomas Deeke started his Trust to educate fifteen poor children of Timsbury. 
1761  Thomas Sambourne Palmer dies, outlived by his father Thomas Palmer. 
1766  Old Grove Colliery sunk. 
1766  Thomas Palmer (Snr) dies and his grandson Sambourne Palmer becomes Lord of the Manor. 
1782  John Wood is rector. 
1783  William Brudenell Barter is rector. 
1784  Timsbury consists of about 50 houses most of which form a street near the church. The lands are mostly pasture, well wooded with elm, and are worth 15-30s an acre. 
1788  Anniversary of Club feast at Timsbury on Monday 4 August. 150 members walked in procession to church with red staves and ribbons preceded by a band. Sermon by Rev Mr Gunning. Dinner after at Club room. 
1791  New Tyning and New Grove coalworks started: a partnership between Messrs Crang, Mogg and Samborne Palmer.  
1791  Conygre Coalworks started: a partnership between Messrs Adams, Crang, Mogg, Samborne Palmer, and Savage.  
1792  4,000 colliers from Timsbury and Paulton met High Sheriff J H Coxe, esq; Major Tucker; Messrs Mogg, Crang and James, and other proprietors of pits, demanding increased wages. Demands granted – haulers increase from 14d to 17d/day, miners from 16d to 18d. All returned to work. 
1793  Somerset Coal Canal – coal proprietors met at Old Down to consider a canal from collieries to Bath. 
1794  Somerset Coal Canal excavations started. 
1795  On Thursday 2 July, a man belonging to the New Coal Works Timsbury, drew in a wagon from the pit to Mr Groom’s yard in Bath, a piece of coal weighing 1 ton 5¾ cwt 26 lbs. 
1805  Methodist Church founded in Timsbury. 
1814  Sambourne Palmer dies. Sambourne Stukley Palmer becomes Lord of the Manor. 
1815  Captain John Parish builds Parish’s House. 
1822 Timsbury consists of 198 inhabited houses and 208 families, 22 of whom are employed in agriculture, 20 in trade and 166 not comprised in either class. Of the later the greater part are employed in the coal works. The population of the parish has increased by 1/3 within the last 20 years.
1825 Rebuilding of St Mary’s Church completed, but Reverand Barter died before the completion of the work.
1825 Charles Trelawney Collins is rector.
1830 First National School built at junction between Mill Lane and South Road.
1841  Richard Hill is rector. 
1845  Accident at Hayeswood Colliery on 23rd January. Seven men injured. On 4th February, Hayeswood Colliery is flooded and seven men and four boys drowned. 
1852 Transepts and nave added to St Mary’s Church.
1858 Lower Conygre Colliery sunk. Some coal transported on the Somerset Coal Canal.
1862 Hayeswood Colliery closed.
1865 Sambourne Stuckley Palmer died. His son, Samborne Stuckley Palmer Samborne, becomes Lord of the Manor.
1878 Old Grove Colliery closed.
1884  Leigh Thomas Rendell is rector. He is the nephew of Reverend Richard Hill.
1885  Old pews removed from St Mary’s Church.
1889  Samborne Stuckley Palmer Samborne gives additional land for the graveyard.
1894  First elected Parish Council installed to replace the old Vestry Meetings.
1895  Conygre Colliery disaster on 6th February. Seven miners killed.
1902  William Yorke Fausset is rector.
1904  Samborne Stuckley Palmer Samborne dies. His son John Stuckley Palmer Samborne becomes Lord of the Manor. He is the last member of the Samborne family to be Lord of the Manor.
1910  Lower Conygre Colliery closed for a year. GWR Timsbury Halt opened.
1910  Charles Ruddock Mead King is rector.
1911 A year of labour disputes.
1912 Upper and Lower Conygre Collieries closed for a month.
1914 Lower Conygre Colliery flooded when Withy Mills workings breached.
1915 Upper and Lower Conygre Collieries closed in June.
1919 John Stukley Palmer Sambourne gives more land for the graveyard.
1926 First council houses built in Newman’s Lane.
1934 Joseph Claude Rose is rector.
1934  Stage 1 of the Lansdown housing scheme.
1934 New Senior Secondary School opened.
1946 Prefabricated houses built at Greenvale.
1956 Hugh Vipond Davies is rector.
1956 Stage 2 of Lansdown housing scheme.
1960 Demolition of Timsbury House begins.
1973 Newly built Conygre Hall opened.
1975 Land purchased for permanent allotments in Lippiatt Lane.
1976 Peter Cole Robson is rector.
1977 Centre of the village designated a Conservation Area.
1978 First copies of the ‘Timsbury Letter’.
1980 Clifford Albert Jones is rector.
1986 John Peter Cyril Reed is rector.
1994 Christopher Charles Brown is rector. 
1994 Centenary of Timsbury Parish Council
1995 Miner’s Memorial Garden opened.
2000 Christopher Hare is rector.

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