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Woodhurst, Huntingdonshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1932.

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WOODHURST:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1932.

[Description(s) transcribed by Martin Edwards and later edited by Colin Hinson ©2010]
[from The Victoria County History series - 1932]

"WOODHURST lies to the north of St. Ives. Some two-thirds of the parish is arable land, the soil being clay. For the greater part the parish is above the 100 ft. contour.

The village is a typical woodland ring-fenced settlement. it lies around what is roughly an oblong formed by two roads - Church Street on the north and South Street on the south, joined at the ends. From the middle of the ends, roads go to Bluntisham and Old Hurst. Probably at one end or the other stood St. John's Cross, of which mention is made in 1545. Around this oblong are farm houses, shops and cottages of the old village. They are, for the most part, of late 19th and early 20th century date as the village was almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1834, but a few 17th century cottages do remain, albeit partially modernised.

The parochial chapel of St John is in the middle of the north side of Church Street, and a lane (called Church Lane) runs southwards from it to South Street. The Manor House (now known as Manor Farm) stands at the north-east corner of the village. It is a large brick house with tiled roofs partially built in the 17th century and completed in the 18th century. A homestead moat north-east of the manor house, called Spinney Moat, may represent the site of the old manor house.

Woodhurst, like Old Hurst, was one of the Hurst hamlets belonging to the Manor of Slepe (now St. Ives)."

[Description(s) transcribed by Martin Edwards ©2003 and later edited by Colin Hinson ©2010]
[mainly from The Victoria County History series- 1932]