The village goes back to the Bronze Age, after which it became a mainly agricultural and industrial community. The project is raising awareness amongst the community of the rich past of the parish and is interpreting this legacy in a lasting image cast in bronze.

Thirty-six members of the local community are directly involved in the project. This includes working with local artists to provide an interpretation of local history from the community which is being incorporated in the column design.

The group are also producing a detailed booklet which will be distributed amongst the local community and will be available to visiting tourists.

The villagers are working with dental and sculptors' tools, and most of them have never done modelling before. Since last winter, they have been attending classes by the local sculptor. Each villager is working in wax on a tile cut from the plaster column.

When they have finished their tile it is fitted back on to the master column, along with lettered panels which are being worked on by other villagers. When every panel and three maps have been completed, the column will be cast in bronze.

Some of the subjects being explored by the project include: