This volume contains the histories of 24 parishes in south-east
Cambridgeshire, forming the hundreds of Chilford, Radfield, and
Whittlesford. Traversed, and in part bounded, by the Icknield Way
and the ancient Wool Street, they stretch from the neighbourhood of
Cambridge to the Suffolk border. In the valley of the Cam or Granta
the arable was cultivated in open fields until the early-
rgth-century inclosures. On the south-eastern upland the medieval
clearance of ancient woodland in the heavy clays produced much
early inclosure, while the heathland lying along the Icknield Way
encouraged sheep-farming, and nearer Newmarket is used for
stud-farms. Babraham was notable for 17th-century irrigated
meadows, and as the home of the Victorian sheep-breeder, Jones
Webb. The villages in the river valleys are mostly nucleated; in
the less populous eastern part settlement has been more scattered.
The former market town of Linton, near the centre of the area, had
once two small religious houses, and Castle Camps a
motte-and-bailey castle, held by the Veres. Among later mansions,
the Tudor Babraham Hall, and Horseheath Hall, a grand classical
house, destroyed through its owner's extravagance, have gone.
Sawston Hall, the seat of the Catholic Huddlestons during four
centuries, survives. The village of Sawston and its neighbours have
grown since the 19th-century through the presence of such
industries as tanning, paper-making, and the production of
fertilizers, and more recently of adhesives, besides light
engineering. Further east the land is still devoted mainly to
farming.
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