Description
Book SynopsisTHE volume relates to the part of the county lying north-west of Cambridge and includes the histories of twenty-seven parishes forming the hundreds of Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth. The area is bounded on the south by the road to St. Neots, on the east by the river Cam, and on the north by the Great Ouse or Old West River; it falls into two distinct physical landscapes, the land in the south sloping gently from a ridge and that in the north formingan extension of the fenlands of the Isle of Ely. Two distinct settlement patterns reflect the geographical division. The villages on the higher ground were mainly devoted to arable farming. Some of the smaller parishes there cameinto or remained in the hands of a single landowner between the early 16th and the mid 17th century, and each parish tended to be dominated by its principal landowner and the Church of England; population rose steadily in the earlier 19th century but fell sharply from the 1870s. Along the fen edge the parishes
Table of ContentsParishes - Chesterton, Childerley, Cottenham, Dry Drayton, Histon, Westwick, Girton, Impington, Landbeach, Lolworth, Madingley, Milton, Oakington, Rampton, Long Stanton, Waterbeach, Boxworth, Conington, Fen Drayton, Elsworth, Graveley, Knapwell, Over, Papworth Everard, Papworth St Agnes, Swavesey, Willingham.
