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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely - Volume IX: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds (North and North-West of Cambridge) (Hardcover)
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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely - Volume IX: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds (North and North-West of Cambridge) (Hardcover)
Series: Victoria County History
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THE 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 forming
an 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 came into 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 were mostly larger and included extensive meadow and
pasture created on former marshland; numerous smallholders could
support themselves out of the resources of the fens, grazing sheep
on the commons, fishing, fowling, and cutting peat, and in the 17th
century the villagers combined to resist the attempts of new lay
lords to restore seigneurial rights and to inclose large tracts of
commons. Religious dissent was strong. From the 1870s the
establishment of orchards and market gardens and the growth of the
Chivers jam factory at Histon enabled the villages to maintain or
increase their population. The south-east corner of the area was
particularly affected by the urban and academic expansion of
Cambridge in the late 19th and the 20th century; several parishes
were largely built up, Chesterton became fully suburban, and
research organizations were established.
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