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"HORSEHEATH is a village and parish, pleasantly seated on the Cambridge old road, 4½ miles east from Linton station on the Cambridge and Sudbury line of the London and North Eastern railway, 4 west from Haverhill and 14 south-east from Cambridge, in the hundred of Chilford, petty sessional division and union of Linton, county court district of Haverhill, rural deanery of Camps and archdeaconry and diocese Ely."
"Horseheath Hall, a magnificent mansion, erected here in 1665 by William, Baron Alington, was sold about a century later for the value of the materials: the park which consisted of above 870 acres, has been disparked. T. Wayman Parsons esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,922 acres; the population in 1921 was 369."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of All Saints 15th century-1981 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. These inscriptions are also available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Horseheath is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of All Saints is an ancient edifice of flint and rubble in the Gothic style of the 15th century, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: in the chancel is a 14th century brass of a knight in full armour, but the inscription is lost: on the south side of the chancel are monuments with effigies to Sir Giles Alington knt. master of the Ordnance, temp. Henry VIII. ob. 1586, and his son Gyles, both clad in armour; and on the north side a monument with effigies to Sir Giles Alington, ob. 1613, his wife Dorothy, and their in children, figures of whom surround the monument: there is also a tablet to one of the Bromleys, Barons Montfort of Horseheath, a title which became extinct on the death of Henry (Bromley); 3rd baron, April 30, 1851; a brass with mutilate effigy to Robert, son of Sir Giles Alington, ob. 1552 and Margaret (Coningsbie) his wife, and inscribed brasses to Joan Alyngton, sister and heir of John Argentein, ob. 1429, and to Mary (Cheyne), wife of John Alington, circa 1470: the church was restored and reseated in 1880-91, at a cost of £1,000: in 1911 six of the nave windows were completely restored at a cost of £166: there is a stone in the churchyard wall with the following inscription:-
"George V. R.I. our King, in mellow autumn tide
Here viewed a bloodless fray;
May duty, love and peace abide
To bless him day by dayArmy Manoeuvres, Sep. 18, 1912."The church affords 190 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558."
"There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here. "
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire 1929]
Horseheath, All Saints: Records of baptisms 1558-1927, marriages 1558-1990, burials 1558-1924 and banns 1754-1813, 1823-1963 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Index transcripts of baptisms 1558-1927, marriages 1558-1836 and burials 1558-1924 also reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1649, 1662-1860 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.The parish register transcripts for Horseheath All Saints 1558-1924 are also available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1759, 1789-1846 and 1865-1948.
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