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Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation

Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 1 Contents Introduction

With the development of Waterbeach New It has been prepared by the developers, Town moving forward as an allocated and with the agreement of South Introduction 3 consented part of South Cambridgeshire District Council, and will Place and Street Naming Strategy - District Council’s Local Plan, we are now enable a final recommendation of the undertaking consultation on the name of the approach to be agreed by the District Development and Consultation Process 5 new town and seeking input to a ‘repository’ Council later this year, and a framework to of useful references and potential names then be in place by which naming can be for places within the new town, which will be guided as the development rolls out over Section 1 Naming the Settlement 6 designed and built over the years ahead. the next few years. This document provides guidance and Opportunities also exist, going forward, Historical Overview 6 information to assist consultees and to explore the heritage of the place and Origins and Connections 9 stakeholders in responding to the two consider naming approaches for other separate parts of the consultation exercise. aspects of infrastructure which impact on the development and local area. Naming New Communities This consultation document is also in two This includes roundabouts on the A10, sections and asks for comments in two Case Study: Milton Keynes 12 which support the broader place making separate sections on: approach. The feedback on the principles 1. The naming of the New Town as a and approaches set out here, will support Section 2 Place Naming Within whole, and in combination with the the approach partners take with this going existing settlement of Waterbeach. forward. the New Development 14 2. Names for streets and public spaces, walking loops and play areas within the References and Influences 14 new development. This section focusses on the Barracks and Airfield part of the References and Potential Names: Historical 18 development, which is more advanced References and Potential Names: Biodiversity 24 than the details for Waterbeach New Town East. It proposes an approach based on the heritage and ecology of specific character areas within the Part 1: Naming the Settlement (QA) 25 development, and suggests a series of names which could be used under this framework. Views are asked to shape the approach and the specific Part 2: Local Place Naming (QB) 25 details of names coming forward. This will also support RLW in developing the approaches they take as they move forward the Resolution to Grant outline Questionnaire A 27 planning permission in February 2021. Questionnaire B 29

2 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 3 Place and Street Naming Strategy- Development and Consultation Process

1. Process and Timing Stage 1: Wider Community Stage 2: Workshops Consultation The process will have 2 key stages and last 14 weeks, starting 1st April and completing The reviewed options will be shared on the 7th July. Timings and details of these are set out below: Wider stakeholders and the communities online portal and anyone who took part in around the development will be consulted Stage 1 will be contacted to comment on the through the following means to inform the preferred options being progressed. stages set out above. Stage of Alongside that, workshops will be held process Dates Detail • Door drop of the consultation document with the themes and groups set out below. to residents of Waterbeach and These represent 3 core strands: democratic Chittering to mark the first stage of the Consultation on name of town and on wider representation of the current residents of the 1 April – 12 May consultation. These will include “cut off” Stage 1 naming strategy for streets and places within village and the wider area; the long view of (6 weeks) return questionnaires with return boxes the Barracks part of the development. history, which is vital in establishing places with at locations in the village and a freepost historical integrity for the future; and the voice return envelope. 13 May – 26 May Review of submissions and formulation of of young people who represent that future. The Review • An online consultation portal will workshops will therefore include: (2 week) preferred options provide a digital space for feedback with the same information from the document • Elected and community representatives: Consultation on preferred options including and questions set out on web pages. This Waterbeach Parish Councillors, District a number of targeted workshops with 3 key will also offer hard copies on request. and County Councillors, and nominated stakeholder groups: The consultation will be promoted through: representatives from Landbeach and Horningsea; 27 May – 7 July • Newsletter / e-news: The Urban&Civic Stage 2 • Parish, County and District Councillors (6 weeks) newsletter is door dropped to • Heritage representatives: Members of 1 • Heritage Groups Waterbeach, Chittering, Landbeach the existing Waterbeach Heritage Group and Horningsea residents, and U&C’s and representatives from Cambridge Past, • Youth Representatives e-newsletter goes to subscribers signed Present and Future; up for information updates through • The Youth Voice: a workshop with Final Review of feedback and recommendations previous consultation events or through Waterbeach Action for Youth, with input July Cabinet Date review & put forward to South Cambridgeshire District the website. from local schools, which will be supported TBC submission Council Cabinet for final decision • Social media and PR: Press and facilitated by Form the Future. releases to local media and use of Write-ups from each stage of the consultation, social media by both developers and including the workshops, will be shared on South Cambridgeshire District Council the website along with the final submission will promote the consultation and recommendation report. These documents will 2. Promotion and engagement opportunities to engage with and access form the submission to SCDC Cabinet. it. There will be a number of key approaches to ensure an inclusive and proactive approach to engaging people in this consultation, over the 2 stages, as set out on the next page: • Face-to-face / Webinars: Two webinars will be hosted by the developers to 1 Members include The Waterbeach Military answer questions and promote the Heritage Museum Trust, Denny Abbey consultation. Comments given during Farmland Museum, Historic England and these sessions will be recorded as English Heritage, National Trust (Wicken Fen feedback. team), Waterbeach Parish Council, South The review stage will include an opportunity Cambridgeshire District Council Heritage to check if any issues occurred in Stage 1, and planning representation, County Council and factor in any additional targeted work Heritage and Culture representation, needed. This will be agreed by the developers Landbeach Parish Council and Tithe Barn and South Cambridgeshire District Council. Trust.

4 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 5 Section 1 Naming the Settlement Historical Overview

Waterbeach as a name The military legacy is important here: Waterbeach New Town in the planning town’ as a name but the relevance to wartime and postwar activities leave behind context identity, rather than planning is limited Waterbeach appears in the 1086 Domesday barracks buildings and the airfield but more – it is generic and new towns become Book as Utbech and the connection and significantly more deep rooted connections Unusually, the new town has not been old towns in short time as experienced differences between Landbeach and in the form of the Memorial Garden by the subject to the same processes as the by the post-War New Towns of Welwyn, Waterbeach have been a fundamental lake, graves in the Village Cemetery, and aborted “Mereham”, or the delivery of Letchworth and Stevenage and indeed defining factor throughout the centuries. the Waterbeach Military Heritage Museum. Cambourne or Northstowe – where a new Milton Keynes. name and identity was established at an The area defined by the name has been These bind the link between the Barracks • A new town at Waterbeach is allocated early stage and carried through to provide consistent due to natural and historic and village. Alongside that the nature of in South Cambridgeshire District the moniker for the new community on the features: stretching to the River Cam to the the Barracks meant that many village Council’s Local Plan, adopted in 2018. ground. The early promotion of Northstowe east, Car Dyke and Akeman Street to the residents were regular visitors and users of This allocation is supplemented by the was linked to several existing places, not west. The northern boundary with Denny the facilities, notably the Swimming Pool, Waterbeach New Town Supplementary one - Longstanton and RAF Oakington, Abbey and Chittering to the north links to the Sports Hall, Golf Course and Lake. Planning Document. Throughout the both abutting, and close to Oakington drainage ditch divisions with their roots in The were in turn actively Local Plan preparation period (from village and Westwick. It always had its own the 12th to 13th Century. involved in supporting the village, with 2011 to 2018) the proposition has been identity, hence a new name was adopted. events like the Feast, and many veterans referred to as ‘Waterbeach New Town’ or Cambourne had no close association with The boundaries remained consistent remain in touch and share memories which ‘a new town at Waterbeach’. In planning an existing settlement throughout the drainage of the fens, is helping inform recording of the heritage of documentation, the allocation of the enclosure and the hundreds of years the site and influencing future approaches One reflection on this, is that there has new town is consistently distinguished of farming, living and working that has set out in this strategy. always been an understanding that the from Waterbeach village and identified occurred across this area. The only roots of Waterbeach New Town are in the as encompassing Waterbeach Barracks subdivision of this land came with the This interaction has been a key theme existing village, and the ambition from the and Airfield, and agricultural land to the Second World War and the subsequent recounted in residents’ stories of when the initial stages of vision-making, was to “grow east, extending to the railway line. use of part of the allocated area as first an Barracks was operational. a place, from the existing village”, protecting • Through the early stages of the Local Airfield for the RAF ‘(as RAF Waterbeach)’ Similarly the land to the East that makes and enhancing the village’s historic setting. Plan preparation, promoters acting for and then in the 1960s the Royal Engineers, up Waterbeach New Town East, has been the landowners adopted a ‘‘promotional’ updating the name to Waterbeach Barracks. farmed continuously through this period, A quick summary of key planning history includes: identity for their master plan: Denny St almost exclusively by local families. Francis. The name was not adopted in • The development of a new town at the Local Plan and is no longer used by Waterbeach emerged over a long period either of the promoters bringing forward as a feature of the planning strategy for the proposed development – both the accommodating growth in and around principal promoters now refer to the new Cambridge, focused upon a series of town as Waterbeach. new satellite settlements around the • In shaping detailed planning proposals historic city. The nomenclature of ‘new for the Waterbeach Barracks and town’ is important in spatial and planning Airfield and Waterbeach New Town East policy terms, as it distinguishes the scale (see plan overleaf), the development and type of development from other promoters have maintained consistent forms of planned development, such reference to Waterbeach but also given as extensions to existing settlements. names to features of the proposed Very occasionally places adopt ‘new development, primarily to assist in

6 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 7 Waterbeach Barracks & Airfield Origins and Connections Waterbeach New Town East Relocated Waterbeach Railway Station Waterbeach Village The origin and evolution of place names is In naming planned settlements there is Waterbeach Parish /Boundary more often than not rooted in physical and similar comfort and pride in starting with Other Parish Boundaries natural features and/or strong associations the existing. There is benefit in terms of with human activity; names invariably relay familiarity and identity in adopting the name a sense of place and history. There is also of an existing place that will become part of a linguistic dimension with names being a larger whole. shortened/adapted to suit contemporary This not only resonates with the growth of language and ease of reference. This tends organic settlements, grounded in historical to favour simple names that roll off the association, but respects the fact that it is tongue, have positive connotations and are inappropriate and difficult to impose a new easily spelt/pronounced. The anomalies and identity on a place that is already known the exceptions are of course notable and and familiar. It is important, nevertheless, to valued where they do not conform to these consider the identity of existing places which conventions. become enlarged or incorporated; especially Fanciful names (marketing hyperbole) rarely where those places offer richness, diversity, sit comfortably upon real places, especially and historical touchstones. It is likely in circumstances where a new community that these places will remain distinct and is to be created. A sense of belonging is identifiable, in their own right. far more readily achieved by looking to the There is very good precedent for this existing nomenclature of the location. approach in planning/naming new Large settlements usually carry the names communities. of the earliest habitation, the first kernels of the place, which might have been a crossing/meeting point, farmstead or small hamlet. Often there is a pride in a long history of organic growth and change from a modest beginning.

description and orientation in the planning • Within the local community, the active application documents. These named places engagement and participation of villagers mostly relate to existing and historic features and Waterbeach Parish Council as well which are readily identifiable. There is no as inclusion of the new town within commitment to these names going forward, the Neighbourhood Plan area, at the but some may be worthy of consideration Neighbourhood Plan Body’s request, where they align with the principles of the reflects the historic Parish boundary naming strategy, now to be agreed. and suggests that the village strongly associates with and feels ownership of the new town area.

8 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 9 There are a range of other factors that Similarly, care is to be taken not to duplicate c) Transport and Access Roundabout naming influence naming which are important to services and facilities available in the The approach to naming also provides an consider. These are set out below: village so mutual benefit and patronage is We know one of the key concerns around opportunity to review key connections to maximised. naming comes from traffic management a) Who should be deciding upon a and control, and therefore while this is not the wider infrastructure, for example looking name? The prospective new development is a clear strand of culture and identity, this at naming roundabouts on the A10 at key very distinct in terms of character from is a key concern around routing people entrance points. This would not only enable It is difficult for developers and promoters to the village, but functional connection and appropriately to the key locations from clarity but also create a sense of place, seek to impose names, especially as they human interaction will inevitably be very outside the area. This will require a signage which will introduce a fine grained distinction are often influenced by marketing priorities. much intertwined, and likely to become strategy which reflects the broader naming between different parts of the settlement. The process must be taken forward with more so over time. Throughout the scheme strategy, when agreed, and avoids harmful For example, what has become known as local communities and their representatives, development and consultation there impacts from traffic mistakenly diverting Cambridge Research Park Roundabout and key stakeholders, to agree an approach was a fine balance which all were keen through the village. by default, could become Templars or which is appropriate. Where places already to maintain, indeed celebrate, between St Clare’s, and the planned Southern have a strong association with a name it preserving the identity and character of the The opportunity to sign and put in place Roundabout connection on the A10 should is also extremely difficult to effect change; historic heart of the village, providing new gateway features on Denny End Road, come forward with a name which grounds it familiar, regularly used names tend to facilities and amenities which serve the Cambridge Road and Clayhithe Road in its location and the places it connects. persist and attempts to impose change are village and incoming residents. Good and which clearly mark the historic village can resisted or cause division. Names matter early connections to new facilities and those come forward as part of the public realm d) Governance beyond the notation on a map because they enhancements project, being funded by the in the village has been key. It is important to The existing governance implies that the are the most obvious signal of identity and S106 agreements. try to think ahead to how the community will whole area is Waterbeach, given that this association. in time relate to the place and each other. Signage entire area is covered by Waterbeach Parish Council. This will continue in the short and b) A Shared Sense of Ownership The arc of development which has come to New entrances being installed on the A10 medium term with a community governance and Shared Facilities define the first phase of development on the have limited vehicle access to the village review likely to come forward once the first The linkage between the village and the Barracks and Airfield site north of the lake, in the first instance. Furthermore both residents are in place. The potential remains Barracks is a long standing and important was part of working through a challenge developments have committed to traffic for a Community Association or Trust one. The connections between the village from a number of local stakeholders control measures being in place which to be taken forward with early residents and the proposed development is to be that first development should happen prioritise cycle, walking and public transport to support their active engagement in further reinforced through provision of a directly to the north of the village in the connections to the village, and inhibit community events, activities and spaces range of new shared facilities which will be Barracks, to enable that sense of a growing vehicular access. on the new development, while discussions based in or serve the new development, but village expanding to the north. There are continue to ensure appropriate future will also serve the wider population. These many reasons why early development These new entrances will also be heavily robust governance which can support the include: is progressing first around the lake, but signed as construction entrances and then shared facilities across the new and existing connecting the two areas physically with signs, branding and flags to support communities. • The proposed Secondary Schools and by connection and culturally with the the first house sales as the new homes 6th Form Waterbeach community identity has been move into sales and then are occupied. At • The proposed Health Centre important to the village and is key to the that stage the more permanent signage • The proposed Rail Station, Park&Ride, broader shared vision. approach will need to be in place. The questionnaire for this first section of the consultation is available on p27. Greenway, bus provision and CAM route This will also relate to signing access to • The proposed sports and recreation Waterbeach New Town East - which will be facilities through the Barracks and Airfield site.

10 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 11 Naming New Communities Case Study: Milton Keynes

Naming a planned settlement is an interesting challenge, but an important one to get right. It helps to reinforce character and ground a new community.

Experience in Milton Keynes offers some useful and direct parallels with circumstances around the new town at Waterbeach. Although it was a designated new town of significant scale (substantially bigger than the The designated area of Milton Keynes Waterbeach new town) and is now a self- incorporated great swathes of countryside proclaimed city, the approach to naming is but also infilled between four existing transferable. towns and incorporated many characterful The village became known as Middleton In deciding upon the name for the new city Buckinghamshire villages. The historic de Keynes, eventually being shortened Labour Minister Dick Crossman apparently villages each became the focus of a new to Milton Keynes. The city grid square in alighted on the village when looking at the grid square with sensitive and varied which the village is now located was named map and noted the parallel with John Milton, approach to integration. Middleton, with reference back to this time. the poet, and John Maynard Keynes, the The city was named after one of these economist. This provided a firm connection villages. Historically, the village was known with the existing place combined with an as Middeltone (11th century). After the expression of ambition in terms of “planning Norman invasion, the de Cahaines family with economic sense and idealism”. It suited held the manor within the village until the very well. 13th century. The village has retained a distinct identity within the city. It is known as Milton Keynes ‘Milton Keynes’ existed as a village long Village within Middleton grid square. It before the new town, and became part of is a very desirable and popular place to the greater whole. With its own signposts live (reflected in elevated property values) and gateway features, the village has combining a quaint village character with city maintained a sense of sense of distinct amenities on the doorstep. from the larger new development, without creating a divided place. The example there has ensured the older village has developed a positive reputation as a premium location, with historic properties and character, but good access to facilities and amenities of the new town.

12 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 13 Section 2 Place Naming Within the New Development

References and Influences

Beyond naming the settlement itself, there is Input and ideas for the whole new town a great deal of further work to do to design, are very welcome now or over the months deliver and name places within the new ahead, and can be forwarded at any time to development. This will be a collaborative the following address: process and an ongoing task over the years [email protected] ahead. It is helpful to begin to assemble useful references, sources and think about Consultees are also to be invited now to appropriate influences. respond to Questionnaire B, just in relation to the Barracks and Airfield site. Delivery of the Barracks and Airfield is more advanced than on Waterbeach New In time, RLW will undertake a similar Town East. The Urban&Civic team (U&C) exercise, to inform their first detailed - who are bringing forward the Barracks proposals. The reference material can then and Airfield development on behalf of the be brought together into one resource. Defence Infrastructure Organisation - is engaged in detailed design and the first The reference resource which is presented parcel developers are now working on here will expand with consultee responses reserved matters applications. Place naming and RLW input over time and will become is therefore an imminent consideration. an important source of information to draw on as the development moves forward. The Over the following pages the U&C team District Council and stakeholders will also present the work undertaken so far to now consider a protocol for proposing and gather relevant references and influences. approving place names. This process will be set out in an update to this document, in Sharing these tangible examples due course. should help to both test the principles and approach taken to date with wider stakeholders and communities; and enable an ongoing discussion, with stakeholders, promoters and the community contributing ideas and information.

14 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 15 Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield Outline Planning Application º E º N, 0.12910 52.2656

1 Barracks: Royal Engineers Capturing the history and ecology of Some features have already been given The area already has a strong character name. The streets could further be Waterbeach in the naming strategy “working titles” through inclusion in the named after the high ranking officers of Design Code, or other planning documents the regiment. The name given to the The land of Waterbeach has a rich history Royal Engineers - ‘Sappers’ - could including: further be used to rename the Parade which straddles centuries of uses, families Ground, as part of the naming strategy for the civic centre or alternatively for the and stories: through Saxon and Roman, The Causeway - An inherited feature that water tower. to medieval farming, the draining of the historically provided a movement route Fens, and up to twentieth century military from Waterbeach Village to Denny Abbey: 2 Runway Parklands: 514 and 5 99 Squadron history. All of this is present in the historic the current “working title” for this is Denny The street names of this area could and future layout of the development, and Causeway. Historical pick up on the RAF based surnames connections from both the 514 and 99 Squadrons; in the uniquely rich landscape which is 2 the names could also incorporate the Runway Parklands - two large landscape roles of Officers (e.g. ‘Thomson the legacy of those historic influences. 514 and 99 6 Signals’). The park features could also elements of the site and low-density Squadron Historic reflect the aircraft; either the primary Opposite is a map of the suggested themes Farms housing, which could evolve into named planes flown from the runway or the and approaches which start to define the 4 designers. areas. Natural Features character of new areas coming forward 3 Middle Field: Bomber within the plans for Waterbeach Barracks “Rye Gardens” - a proposed community Command + Missions The southern runway links strongly to and Airfield. open space with a vista of Denny Abbey. 1 the RAF. This could potentially be named ‘Rye’ denotes the grass crop previously Royal after Stafford-Clark who was bomber The map uses the character areas defined 3 Engineers command during WWII. Alternatively the grown at Denny Abbey gardens. Bomber Command Control Tower could incorporate his in the Design Access Statement (of the + Missions surname. Street names in the area could reflect veterans linked to raids, in Outline) to set out some core themes, Winfold or Winfold Common- a proposed particular those who did not return or grouped into further areas based upon within which we would seek to martial a list wetland area, the name relating to the their final raid. of appropriate names and test these with existing woodland of Winfold Green and the key stakeholders and the wider community. former Winfold Farm. Winfold Common was 4 Lakeside: Natural Features The lake itself could have a military The potential list of names that could sit a former pasture in the 1800s. based name, however the other areas within each of these areas is attached below could juxtapose the man-made lake with natural connections. Denny Waters grouped into 4 key areas, which reflect the and Car-Dyke are appropriate inspiration whilst the other named military, agricultural heritage and ecological features could relate to species located at the lakeside or wider landscape connections highlighted below in more features. detail. 5 Denny/Lakeside North: These names have the potential to cover Historical connections street names, names for civic squares and The area’s relationship with Denny Abbey indicates that the street naming areas, parks and play areas, woodland Character areas/ neighbourhood diagram for the151 area should relate to the Abbey * New names for the Character Areas could also be formed from the naming lists itself or make links to its monastic areas and glades. They also include specific heritage and pilgrimage connections. options which could be applied to buildings or civic uses, but it is suggested this is Waterbeach Naming Strategy - Draft Proposals 6 Winfold: Historic Farms explored through further consultation as The character areas association with We propose to use the Character Areas to provide a focus and Winfold Farm and proposed uses as a detailed designs move forward. wetland area lends itself to framework for street and place names, which have historic or incorporating former historic farm ecological integrity and relevance. names. Lists of example names which reflect these areas are set out over the following pages.

16 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 17 References and Potential Names: Historical

Potential names set out • Stafford-Clark – • Bowen (Specialist/ Mottos High ranking Officers below for: Bomber Command at Instruments) • RAF station - In courage 1) Barracks, Runway Waterbeach during • Beckett (Navigation Commanders, 39 Regt and Operations (39 Regiment): WWII I aim the highest – flores 52 Field Squadron: Parklands and Middle Officer) virtute capesso • Resonite – South Oman • Dixon-Wright DFC Field • Stevens (Adjutant) • Clifford • Telic – Iraq (Sqn 99) • 514 Squadron - Nothing 2) Lakeside • Reid (A Flight can withstand -Nil • Drake • Herrick – Afghanistan • Heath (Sqn 99) Commander) 3) Lakeside North / Denny Obstare Potest • Carlier • Gritrock – West Africa • Samson (Sqn 514) – Parklands • Roberts (B Flight • 99 Squadron - Each • Noble (post 2012) Battle of Berlin and Commander) 4) Winfold tenacious - Quisque • Brent • Trenton – West Africa build up to D-Day; • Lemerle (Medical tenax Samson survived • Adamson (post 2012) 1) Naming lists for the Officer) the war itself, only • Bowen • Newcombe – Mali (post Barracks, Runway to be killed on 8th • Pollock (Gunnery 2012) • Daly Parklands and September 1945 Officer) Army (Royal Engineers – Middle Field: Military when flying a Dakota 25 & 39 Regiment) • Day Associations carrying sick POWs • Greenall RE’s are widely known recently released from Aircraft • Elgood Japanese captivity. as ‘Sappers’ or ‘Miners’; RAF • • Cowtan MBE The aircraft exploded Sappers or Miners Barracks (Primary plane for 99 just off the coast of • Hart Commanding officers (all Sqn; made by Vickers- is potential character area Burma with the loss • Berry Sqns): (Sourced from Armstrongs; designed name. of all 4 crew and 24 • Noble – opened the military records/ dedicated by Barnes Wallis) passengers. Memorial Gardens in web page to 514 Sqn) • Short S29 Stirling • Best (Sqn 59) 2009 • • Park • Cochrane (Sqn 220) • Phillips (Primary plane for 514 • Adamson • Bell Sqn; made by Avro, • Saye formerly Handley Page • McGill • Sharpe Other Senior Officers Halifax; designed by • Girling • Heard and their speciality Roy Chadwick) • McKay (November 1943, 514 • Lea-Cox • Consolidated Liberator • Macdonald-Smith Sqn) B24 (59 Sqn post-war) • Stringer • Homan • Avro 685 York (post- • Hyde • Croston (Electrical • Lee war) • Jones Officer) • Palmer • Douglas Dakota C47 • Mount • Angus (Bombing • Boyne Leader) (220 Sqn post-war) • Donaldson • Shaw • Wand (Engineer) • Avro 691 Lancastrian • Chacksfield • Heath • Hall (Engineering • • Corp • Dutton Leader) • Vickers Supermarine • Besgrove • Topham • Thomson (Signals Swift • Clerke Leader) • • Croucher • Earnshaw • Trick (Specialist/ • De Havilland DH112 • Tetlow Instruments) Venom • Willams • • McCall • Boswell

18 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 19 2. Naming list for the Lakeside: landscape heritage

Military deaths, sourced RAF personnel buried at Surnames of victims of Surnames of losses from Landscape features/ from Waterbeach Roll of Waterbeach (Surnames) Waterbeach explosion 514 squadron names from surrounding Honour 1944 area • Adams *sourced RAAF archives/514 Surnames from 99 • Baldwin • Bichard web page *where the name denotes Squadron and final raid • Benfield • Bolton • Lucas - MU Gunner a pre-existing place, the Evaded – Mannheim location (from WW2; did not • Brewer name could be split or • Benigan raid (remained hidden in return home and no known • Caris • Davies Brussels till Liberation) varied to make reference to graves): the feature. • Darbyshire • Haydn • Fontaine - Bomb Aimer • Allport – Antwerp • Eccles • Leach KIA - Mannheim raid • Elmney Closes (c.1810) • Bennett – Rotterdam • Eva • Smales • Brent - Navigator KIA - • Challis Frith (c.1810) • Bennetts – Berlin • Fordham • Watson Mannheim raid • Oxpen Meadow • Colpitts – Portland • Hewitt • Westgarth • Stagg - Flight Engineer (c.1810) KIA - Mannheim raid • Dance – Antwerp • Jones • Stone Hills (c.1810) • Haines RAAF - Rear • Kerr • High Meadow (c.1810) • Harding - Berlin Gunner POW - • Hewitson – Rotterdam • Kyte Mannheim raid • Bannold – Little, Great (c.1810) • Holt – Rotterdam • O’Brien • Cantin, RCAF, Pilot KIA - • Jackson – Berlin • O’Hare Berlin raid • Sheep Ley (c.1810) • James -Rotterdam • Pavey • Saddler, Navigator KIA - • Wulfholes (Winfold Field) (c.1810) • Kay – Mannheim • Prior Berlin raid • Haverstock (c.1810) • Kay – Antwerp • Rumbo • Eyre, MU Gunner KIA - • Great Hollow (c.1810) • Lewis – Mannheim • Savoy Berlin raid • Joist Fen (c.1810) • Mahon – Mannheim • Street • Walne, Rear Gunner KIA - Berlin raid • Fear Fen (c.1810) • Mc Donough – Antwerp • Svehla • King, Flight Engineer • Chittering Fen (c.1810) • Mercer – Berlin • Yeats – 56 Squadron KIA - Berlin raid • Wicken Fen • Parry – Genoa Leader (most senior officer buried in • /O PJK Hood (Pilot) • Peat Fen • Partridge – Mannheim Waterbeach Cemetery) POW – Nuremburg raid • Western Claylands • Pinkerton – Antwerp • Cosgrove (Navigator) • Tythe (Barn) – Medieval • Shattock – Portland POW - Nuremburg raid feature • Smith – Portland • Wilton (Air Bomber) • Cam Washes – (‘The • Smith – Berlin POW¬- Nuremburg raid Washes’ could form an • Soden – Mannheim • Rollings (WOP/Air) POW area name) - Nuremburg raid • Stevens – Rotterdam • Woburn Sands – • Lanthier USAAF geological formation • Talbot – Berlin (Rear Gunner) POW - • Thomas – Portland • Gault – geological Nuremburg raid formation • Thomas – Rotterdam • Wickson (Flight • Alder – tree • Westbrook – Mannheim Engineer) POW ¬- Nuremburg raid • Ouse Valley

20 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 21 3. Naming list for Denny/ 4. Naming List for Lakeside North Winfold

Priors of Ely – the Abbesses of Denny – Historic Farm names, Benedictines who moved to surnames of the women at from families who Biodiversity Denny Abbey from Ely in the the head of the Abbey of owned and/worked the Alongside the heritage uses and names, Kingfisher Walk - the route around the lake 1100s Nuns (1300s) land a critical element of the development is will enable glimpses of the kingfishers which • Vincent • de Bolewyk (1st) • Blacwine the biodiversity approaches and priorities. live on the island but also keep people away from the more sensitive habitats there. They • Henry • Colcestre • Picot Part of the approach here will be to engage residents and visitors in the landscape may include observation points to see them • William • Kendale • Osmund around them and in understanding, safely. • Tombert • Massingham • Aubrey supporting and exploring it, to benefit • Alexander • Bernard • Glanville The play strategy has a number of natural nature and their own health and wellbeing. and heritage themes which would explore the • Salomon • Milley • Amice* woodland glades and paths they sit within to * Beyond were post 1169 when the • Sybyle • Munchensy We are agreeing a number of hero Transferred to the Knights Templar* reflect willow, poplar, cherry and birch, acer • Keteryche • Aymer* species within our wider place making and • Richard and alder, with grassland areas celebrating • Assheby • Elmney community strategy which we will feature the species of stonecrops, bedstraws and • Longchmap • Throckmorton • Bohun in walks, wayfinding and welcome packs orchids. • de Stateshete • Hasell which help define the role of nature in this • Hugh nature-led development. We would like to The lists overleaf include details of the key Monastic Houses of • Spurling species, which we are continuing to refine, • De Brigham use these names to engage people with Cambridgeshire (selection • Yaxley but we intrinsically feel these relate best • Ralph the play spaces and walking/running routes of): • Downing to walks and play areas, rather than street • Walter around the development, for example: • Robson names. • Leverington • Anglesey Priory • Chester • de Bancis • Barham Friary • Cokenach • de Hemmington • Barnwell Priory • Hobson • de Shepreth • Austin Friars • Knight • de Orford • Blackfriars • Sclater • de Clare • Greyfriars • Standley • de Fresingfield • Pied Friars • Persis* • de Crauden • White Friars • Peach • de Walsingham • Friars of the Sack • Foster • Hathfield • Chatteris Abbey • Toller • Bucton • Chesterton Whitefriars • Angier • Walpole • Duxford Preceptory • Holbeach • Powcher • Eltisley Priory • Frohocks • Walsingham • Fordham Priory • Yorke • Ely • Great Wilbraham *these relate to women’s first • Wells Preceptory • Honringsea Monastery names, where they were left • Peterborough land which passed to their • Westminster • Ickleton Priory husbands. • Colvyle • Wittlesey • Foliott • Cottenham

22 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 23 References and Potential Names: Biodiversity Part 1: Naming the Settlement (Questionnaire A)

Planting species (sourced Breeding Birds The first part of this consultation considers the name of the from biodiversity strategy) new town. • Skylark (Alauda • Bergamot arvensis), There is a need to resolve whether the new development • California lilac • Kingfisher (Alcedo coming forward at Waterbeach, is part of and named • Catmint atthis), Waterbeach, reflecting the common position and • Escallonia • Teal (Anas crecca), understanding at present, or becomes something different. • Firethorn • Meadow pipit (Anthus The corollary is how the village is distinguished as a pratensis), • Oxeye daisy place from which a larger settlement will grow, but with • Swift (Apus apus), its own distinct character. This priority for naming arises • Yarrow • Linnet (Carduelis as construction is now underway and signage/identity will • Lord Lambourne cannabina), reinforce identity as marketing begins and prospective • Arrowhead • Cuckoo (Cuculus residents come to site. • Brooklime canorus), • Yellowhammer The promoters are seeking to respect and manage impacts (Emberiza citronella), on existing residents and signage is a vital part of the Wintering Birds • Hobby (Falco Subbuteo), commitment (for example, deterring unnecessary vehicular • Short-eared owl (Asio movement through the village). Naming needs to be flammeus) • Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), confirmed for a signage strategy to be brought forward. • Pochard (Aythya farina) • Herring gull (Larus Please now consider the questions set out in Questionnaire • Lesser redpoll (Carduelis argentatus), cabaret) A at the back of the document and tell us what you think. • Willow tit (Parus • Peregrine (Falco montanus), peregrinus) • Marsh tit (Parus • Snipe (Gallinago palustris), Part 2: Local Place Naming gallinago) • House sparrow (Passer • Black-headed gull (Larus domesticus), (Questionnaire B) ridibundus) • Willow warbler • Grey wagtail (Motacilla (Phylloscopus trochilus), We would welcome your ideas and input to a repository of cinerea) • Bullfinch (Pyrrhula references for local place naming. Please use Questionnaire • Woodcock (Scolopax pyrrhula), rusticola) B to give us your thoughts now. • Common tern (Sterna • Green sandpiper (Tringa hirundo), You can continue to offer ideas beyond this consultation ochropus) • Starling (Sturnus exercise by sending them to • Redwing (Turdus iliacus) vulgaris), [email protected] • Mistle thrush (Turdus • Song thrush (Turdus viscivorus) philomelos) Thank you for your time reading this, and sharing your views with • Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) • Barn owl (Tyto alba) us.

24 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 25 Questionnaire A Please help us to settle the all-important question of what the expanded settlement at Waterbeach should be called Think carefully and think ahead. This is a decision for the long term and for all the future residents of the village and the new development. It is not just about a name but what that name signifies. When the new development is finished and new facilities are open, how will residents, new and long standing, identify and relate to each other. Are they likely to want to stand together or apart? Also think practically, will a new name or names stick? What is familiar and popular is difficult to change. There will need to be good reason and a consensus to achieve change. 1. The Whole Settlement – is it one or two places? 1a. Do you agree that Waterbeach (the existing village) and incoming community (to be brought forward on the Waterbeach Barracks, Airfield and New Town East should be identified together as one place (as a single settlement and destination)?

Yes No

1b. If you answered yes to Question 1a above, should that settlement be called Waterbeach? Yes No

1c. If you answered ‘No’ to questions 1a or 1b above, please indicate what name or names you would prefer and give your reasons:

2. Waterbeach ‘village’ 2a. If the settlement, as a whole, is identified as one place, do you agree that it is important to distinguish the existing Waterbeach Village as a defined part of the settlement (i.e. an identifiable area within the settlement).

Yes No

2b. If you answered ‘Yes’ to questions 2a, is adopting ‘Waterbeach Village’ as the name the best approach? Yes No

2c. If you answered ‘No’ to questions 2a please indicate or can you offer a better alternative:

26 Waterbeach Settlement Name and Place Naming Consultation 27 Questionnaire B Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield -Local Place Naming

1. Do you agree that introducing themes to help character areas is the right approach?

Yes No

2. Are there any themes you can suggest? Please list suggestions below:

3. Are there names you would add to the lists for consideration? Please list.

4. Any other additional ideas or approaches you would like to share?

5. Do you have any issues or concerns with the approach set out, for example are there names you would rather not see used?

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