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Civil parish united with Fordham in 1953, but to be separated from Fordham and transferred to Suffolk in 1994.
"LANDWADE is a parish, 4 miles north-west from Newmarket station, in the hundred of Staploe, union, petty sessional division and county court district of Newmarket rural deanery of Newmarket, archdeaconry of Sudbury and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. "
"The soil is various. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 127 acres; the population in 1921 was 33."
[Kellys Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Census Records from 1841, 1861-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. The original census for 1851 was lost at source. In addition the 1861 Census for Landwade is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Nicholas, a private chapel of the Cotton family, is an ancient structure, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a low embattled western tower : it contains several monuments to the Cottons; divine service is held here during the summer on the first and third Sunday afternoons."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Landwade, St. Nicholas: The registers are at the church from 1701. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1638-1641 can be found in the Suffolk Record Office and copies on microfilm for 1638-39 and 1641 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. Transcripts exist from the Exning registers, in the Cambridge Record Office, for baptisms 1693-1736, marriages 1695-1736 and burials 1693-1734 (photocopies). Further photocopies exist for burials 1788-1835.
Two courts cover Landwade as follows:
Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury: Jurisidiction in various parishes including Landwade which were in the diocese of Norwich until they were transferred to the diocese of Ely in 1837.
Records are held at the Suffolk Record Office covering Wills, 1439-1857, administrations, 1544-46, 1568-93, 1605-12, 1630-1858, inventories, 1573-76, 1617, 1625, 1640, 1650-1747. Index to wills to 1535 are published in Proceedings of Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, volume 12 and of all records to 1700 in the Index Library of the British Records Society, volumes 95 and 96.
Consistory Court of Norwich: Record are held at the Norfolk Record Office. Wills 1370-1857, administrations, 1370-1499, 1549-1640, 1666-1857, inventories, 1584-1846. There is an index to wills covering 1370-1857 published by the Norfolk Record Society, volumes 16, 21, 34, 38 and 47.
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 1710, 1798 (on microfilm), 1829-32, 1878-88 and 1931-48.
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[Last updated: 2 April 2005 Martin Edwards]