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Castle Camps (village) / 52.06335; 0.37981. 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. The population of the parish (including Camps End) was ...
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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. The castle remained in the de Vere family until 1584, when it was sold by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, to Thomas ...
Nov 28, 2023 · CASTLE-CAMPS (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Linton, hundred of Chilford, county of Cambridge, 5¾ miles SE by E from Linton. The parish is situated near the road from Cambridge to Colchester. There is a place of worship for Baptists. [1]
In 1279 its lord owed suit both to the earl of Oxford's court at Castle Camps and to the honor of Richmond's tourn in south-east Cambridgeshire, to which it sent four men in 1334. The men of Castle Camps did not invariably recognize Olmstead as part of their township. About 1545 men apparently living at Olmstead were excluded from benefit under ...
Castle Camps Parish Council Speed Watch team. If you or someone you know is fed up with speeding vehicles through the village and parish, and can give a couple of hours a few times a year, then please get in touch with Melanie Laing, Clerk to Castle Camps Parish Council, 01799 584428. For anyone new to the area, there is a welcome pack ...
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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.
Between 1941 and 1945 a large part of the land became an airfield. See Defending Cambridge, Mike Osborne, 2013. Proceedings CAS 64 has a report on the fortifications of Castle Camps and the deserted village next to it. It notes that the castle was built soon after thr Norman Conquest by Aubrey de Vere as the administrative centre for his large ...
