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LANDWADE
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
by Colin Hinson ©2013
"LANDWADE, a parish in the hundred of Staploe, county Cambridge, 3 miles north-west of Newmarket, its post town. It is a small parish adjoining that of Burwell. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. Here is an old moated seat of the Cottons of Madingley, who inherited it through the Hastings, in which family the manor has been since the reign of Edward IIL The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Exning, in the diocese of Ely. The church is a cruciform structure dedicated to St. Nicholas. It contains six marble monuments to the Cotton family."
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
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- The Census Records from 1841, 1861-1891 can be found in the Cambridgeshire Archives. 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 Publications list (search)
- "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]
- Church of England
- 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 Cambridgeshire Archives. Transcripts exist from the Exning registers, in the Cambridgeshire Archives, for baptisms 1693-1736, marriages 1695-1736 and burials 1693-1734 (photocopies). Further photocopies exist for burials 1788-1835.
- A transcript of the Landwade parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
- A transcript of the Landwade parish entries from 1929 Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Landwade to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL620677 (Lat/Lon: 52.283566, 0.373491), Landwade which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The War Memorial Plaquein the Church has been transcribed and the men researched.
- 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: Records 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.
- 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.