This volume covers the two hundreds of Armingford and Thriplow in
south-west Cam-bridgeshire. They comprise 23 ancient parishes,
lying between the Gogmagog Hills south-east of Cambridge, where an
Iron Age hill fort partly survives, and the clay-covered West
Cambridge-shire upland. To the north-west they are largely bounded
by the Cam or Rhee, to the south by heathlend along the Icknield
Way. The land has long been used mainly for arable farming. Some of
the villages, which are mostly nucleated, may stand near the sites
of Roman or earlier settlement. Those in the far west had some
dependent hamlets, mostly vanished long ago. In that area several
villages, after the early inclosure of their poor, heavy soils for
pasturage, shrank greatly or, as at Clopton and Shingay, became.
entirely deserted. Elsewhere open fields survived until the early
19th century. Later in that century coprolites were widely dug; in
the 20th com-mercial fruit growing was introduced; the chalk has
been dug to make cement and whiting; and some of the larger
villages, such as Melbourn, have attracted light industry. During
the Second World War much level ground was taken over for
airfields. The churches of the area range from the humble early
Norman work at Hauxton, through cruciform 13th-century buildings,
as at Fowlrnere, to the stately Decorated of Trumpington and
Bassingbourn. The Igth century saw much rebuilding and
refurnishing, sometimes financed by local religious plays. Several
villages retain much timber framed vernacular building. The only
aristocratic mansion, Gogmagog House of the dukes of Leeds at
Wandlebury, has been demolished, but lesser houses include some
well preserved late medieval manor houses and much good, plain
Georgian work, as at Trumpington Hall, seat of the Pembertons. The
villages near Cambridge have been greatly affected in the 20th
century by the spread of population.
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