120 CASTLE CAMPS. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. (KELLY's· CASTLE CA MPS is a large and straggling parish, 3 for 350 persons. The charities amount to £13 yearly, miles south-east from Bartlow station on the Great principally for fuel. This and the neighbouring parish Eastern railway (Cambridge and Melford branch) and of Shudy Camps are said to have derived their names 5 south-east from Linton, in the Eastern division of the from ancient encampments in these parishes. Here was county, hundred of Chilford, union and petty sessional once a castle of the De Veres, Earls of Oxford, and on division of Linton, county court district of Haverhill, the site which adjoins the church there is now a farm­ rural deanery of Camps and archdeaconry and diocese house, surrounded by a deep moat. The Governors of of Ely. The church of All Saints is an edifice of flint the Charterhouse, London, are lords of the manor and and rubble, with stone dressings, in the Perpendicular the principal land·owners. The soil is clay; subsoil. style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an chalk and clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and embattled western tower containing a very fine peal of barley. The area is 3,184 acres; rate!J-ble value, £2,639; 5 bells: in the church is a marble monument to Sir the population in I9II. was 670 civil and 641 ecclesiasti­ James Reynolds kt. appointed a Baron of the Exchequer cal. By a Provisional Order which came into operation in 1740 and knighted 23 May, 1745; he died 20 May, March 25th, r885, all that portion of Helions Bumpstead 1747: the old tower fell down in r85o and was rebuilt in (Essex) parish in Cambridgeshire was amalgamated 1851 in the Decorated style: the porch was rebuilt in with this parish for civil purposes. 1855 and the chancel and nave restored in r883: the Half a mile west of the church is Camps End, a church was restored during the period 1876-89: the roof hamlet of this parish. Camps Green and Olmstead of the nave was reconstructed in 1913 : there are 246 Green are also places in the parish. sittings, of which two-thirds are free. The register Parish Clerk, Alfred Leonard. dates fro:m the year 1565. The living is a rectory, net Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Alice Parkin, sub-postmistress. yearly value £456, with 71 acres of glebe and residence, Letters arrive from Cambridge, via Linton, at 7.15 in the gift of the Governors of the Charterhouse, a.m. & 2.10 p.m.; dispatched at 11.40 a.m.& 5.30 p.m London, and held since 19u by the Rev. George Charles Public Elementary School, built in r865, enlarged in Carter M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford. Here is a 1876 & again in I886, & will hold r6o children; Geo. Congregational chapel, erected in 1812, with sit~i:J.gs J ames Craddock, master Carter Rev. George Charles M.A. Dew Jabez, farmer, Parkin's farm Ruse Harry Chapman,farmer, Green- (rector), The Rectory Edwards Albert, beer retailer house farm Dixon Fred, Woodbine cottage Free Waiter (Mrs.), coal merchant Smith Fras. Robt. farmer, Moat farm Grahnert Mrs. Limes Haigh Rev. George, assistant over- Smith James, farmer, agent for Haigh Rev. George (Congregational) seer & rate collector cakes, manures & implements, HardinQ" Charles, butcher GJodwoods COMMERCIAL. Haverhill Co-operativeSociety's Farm Smith .Tohn Hockley, farmer Balls Thomas, Cock P.H (Charles Bradnam, bailiff) Tilbrook Benj farmer, Coopers farm

Barker Charles,. boot & shoe maker Havlock• Tom, farmer Tilbrook; DukP Jas. frmr. Park farm Barrett Mark John, beer retailer J ohnson Samuel (Mrs.), baker Till brook Wm. frmr. Whitensmere fm Cambridgeshire & District Farmers' Keeble Percival, New inn & baker Wallis Elizh. (Mrs.), grocer & baker Federation (James Smith, sec) Leonard Alfred, bricklayer Watkinson Esdail Alien, insur. agent · Chapman Chas. farmer,Olmstead hall Mann James, farmer, Castle farm Wells Albert, carpenter Chapman James, farmer Norris Samuel W. farmer, Hall farm Wells Frank, farmer, The Endway Cooper James Ebenezer, grocer Parkin Charles, farmer Wenham Herbert, beer retailer Cooper Samuel Thomas, beer retailer Rooks Wm. Taylor, beer retailer&frmr Winterfield John, wheelwright CAXTON is a parish and decayed town, on Ermine venient places for hunting visitHuntingdonshire, and is the head of a Baldwin de Freville in the year I247; it was then held petty sessional division, in the union of Caxton and on Monday, but the day was afterwards changed to Arrington, 3 miles north-west from the Old North Road Tuesday, on which day it was held until the early part . station on the Bedford and Cambridge line of the of the last century, since which time it has become London and North Western railway, about 12 west from obsolete. A police station was erected in r859. William Cambridge, I2 north from Royston and 8 east from St. Nugent Wa.lter Gape esq. who is lord of the manor, and Neots, in the Western division of the county, hundred Wiliam Arthur Briscoe esq. are the principal land­ of Long Stowe, county court district of St. Neots, rural owners. The soil here is stiff and clayey, and the sub­ deanery of Bourn and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. soil a stiff blue gault. The chief crops are wheat, oats The church of St. Andrew is a building of stone and and barley. The area is 2,242 acres; rateable value, flint, chiefly Early English, but with portions in the £r,758; the population in I9II was 433· including 8 Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, south officers and 70 inmates in the Poor Law Institution. aisle, south porch and a low embattled western tower Parish Clerk, (vacant). containing 6 bells, restored and a new treble bell added in r879, at a cost of about £4oo: the chancel retains a Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office:- piscina with Geometric tracery in the head, and a plain Arthur Simpson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from sedile r the nave is curiously placed on a higher level Cambridge at 6.55 a. m. & 1.25 p.m.; dispatched at than the chancel, and is separated from the aisle by an 10.45 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. Box closes at 6.30 p.m. On arcade of four very lofty arches, carried on clustered s'undays letters are delivered at 7.25 a.m. & dispatched piers: .there are several memorials of the Barnard at 6.40 p.m. Post office closes on wed. at I p.m. but family, who had a seat at Caxton, and a memorial mails are dispatched as usual window to the late John Augustus Wright, surgeon, of COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR CAXTON PETTY this parish, d. r869: there were formerly brasses to Sir SESSIONAL DIVISION. John Myton, vicar, with effigy, 1479; John Cretyng, rsoo, and Waiter Cretyng, 1483 : the chancel was re- Brisco~ Sir John James hart. ~ourn hall, Cambridge decorated in I874 and the church was completely re- (chairman) . stored in I s74 : there are over 200 sittings. The church Briscoe Alfred Leigh, 26 Buckingham mansions, West of Caxton, which had belonged to the priory of Lewes, Hampstead, London NW was in 1351 given to the Dean and Canons of Windsor. Briscoe William Arthur. Longstowe hall, Cambridge Dowsing, the Puritan iconoclast, on coming here re- Newton Geo. Douglas Cochrane, Croxton park, St.Neots moved "a cross on ye steeple and one on ye church, Orlebar Augustus Scobell, Tetwortb hall, Gamlingay, and 20 superstitious pictures." The register dates from Sandy the year I741. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Paine James Kidman, The Firs. Caxton, Cambridge £2o8, with residence and including 9 acres of glebe, in Randall William esq. Tadlow, Royston, Herts . the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held Stanley Maj. Charles Wentworth D.L. Merton grange. since Igo6 by the Rev. Lawrence Iggulden B.A. of Gamlingay, Sandy Queens' College, Cambridge, and rural dean of Bourn. Clerk to the Magistrates, Surtees George Wilkinson, A vicarage house was erected in I868 at a cost of up- St. Neots wards of £r,soo. Here is a Baptist chapel, erected in Petty Sessions are held here every alternate friday at 1842, with 25o sittings. The charities amount to about the police station at 1 o'clock. The following places £36, half of which sum is for fuel and the remainder for are included in the petty sessional division :-Bourn, other charities. Matthew Paris, the historian, probably Knapwell, Longstowe, Papworth St. Agnes. Pap- place. Kennels ~ere erected here for the Cam~ridge- , worth Ev~rard & ?'oft shire hounds in 187r; the pack hunts three t1mes a I County Pobce Statwn Alfred Wm. Chevill, inspector; week; Cambridge, Biggleswade and St. Neots are con- I sergeant & 5 constables