Major Hartley Honeyman: sportsman, founding member and first treasurer of the relaunched Tennis Club in the late 1980s, Parish Magazine production supremo
Sid Russell – Parish Council Chairman, Parish Magazine Editor, and well-known for the village Christmas parties which he began.
Shawford Pantos – 1997 onwards – a series of biennial pantos written by Simon Theobalds, giving a contemporary twist to traditional panto themes.
Shawford Train derailment: In July 1952, after the driver misread a signal, a northbound train jumped the points just south of Shawford and was derailed.
The Ancient Roads of Compton, by J.S.Drew, appeared in five parts in the Compton Parish Magazine from September 1937 to January 1938.
The Old School at Silkstead: J.S.Drew’s account of the Catholic School which operated at Silkstead during the second half of the seventeenth century
Short history of the Itchen Navigation, commercially important since before Norman times, until operation ceased in 1869.
Silkstead – Once a Centre of Activity tells the story of the people who lived there or passed through, their animals, and what they ate and drank.
Compton and Shawford Memorial Playing Field 70th Anniversary marked by planting a new tree on the western boundary of the field
Remembrance Sunday 1948 – article reprinted in November 2018 with added biographical details about Sir Brian Horrocks, who took the salute in 1948.
Report of a visit to Compton and Twyford by the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society on 19 May 1903. Hampshire Records Office ref TOP78/3/2
Opening of the Victory Memorial Playing Field on 4 September 1948, as reported in the October 1948 edition of the Parish Magazine.