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

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HAMERTON:
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]

"HAMERTON, the parish of Hamerton consists of mainly arable land. However, Hamerton Grove on the west side of the parish is now the only area of woodland. The Alconbury Brook flows through the village and the north part of the parish. The land here is about 82 ft. above sea-level and rises in the southern boundary to 227 ft.

The picturesque village, which contains a number of 17th century timber-framed cottages, lies on the intersection of the roads from Leighton Bromswold to the Giddings, and from Upton and Alconbury Weston to Winwick. The church is on the south side of the village, and to the south of it is Rectory House which adjoins the remains of a homestead moat marking the site of the capital messuage of the Beauchamps, mentioned in 1274 and 1324. The "Manor Place" was in lease to John Lawncell in 1542, when he left his interest in it to Silvester Bedell, subject to "Mastris Sibell" not coming to dwell in it herself.

The footbridge over Alconbury Brook (beside which there is a ford) was repaired in the reign of Edward VI by the churchwardens, who defayed the cost by the sale of a cope of blue velvet which was sold for 30 shillings (£1.50). Probably the 14th century reused material in the stonework of the bridge formed part of the work of this date. About a mile to the south-west is Grange Farm which was probably the site of the grange of the Priory of Royston.

In 1347, an inquiry was ordered as to two felons who took sanctuary in the church of Hamerton when "the ministers of the church" hindered the baliffs from seizing their horses, goods and chattels."

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