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Castle Camps is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Cambridge and near to the borders of Suffolk and Essex and to the town of Haverhill.
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Castle Camps was a Norman Castle located in what is now the civil parish of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire . Owners. Castle Camps was originally a Saxon manor, belonging to Wulfwin, a Thane of King Edward the Confessor. After the Norman invasion, William the Conqueror gave the manor to Aubrey de Vere I, ancestor to the Earls of Oxford.
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CASTLE CAMPS. Castle Camps lies 15 miles south-east of Cambridge, at the south-eastern extremity of the county. (fn. 1) It is basically triangular, and its south-western and eastern sides form the county boundary.
Castle Camps is situated 15 miles S.E. of Cambridge, and borders on to Suffolk and Essex. It is one of the highest villages in the county, being 415 feet above sea level and on the watershed between the Cam and Colne valleys. It is shewn as part of the Chilford Hundred on a map dated 1845.
Norman Castle, Castle Camps | Capturing Cambridge. History of Castle. Aubrey de Vere received the manor of Castle Camps from William. It was originally a Saxon manor belonging to Wulfwin, a Thane of Edward the Confessor.
Castle Camps is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Cambridge and near to the borders of Suffolk and Essex and to the town of Haverhill.
