Babraham
Babraham is a village in South Cambridgeshire , England , about six miles southeast of Cambridge . On the edge of the village is the Babraham Institute , where cell biology and molecular biology are researched. The Babraham community covers an area of 9.66 km² in an approximately rectangular shape.
history
Traces of a Roman villa have been found on the border with Stapleford .
In the Domesday Book of 1086, the name of the village was listed as Badburgham , which means "homestead or village of a woman named Beaduburh". The location may have been moved because the church is 400 meters from the present village. Babraham was comparatively wealthy in the Middle Ages because of his wool trade.
John Hullier was vicar of the Babraham parish from 1549 until it was revoked in February 1556. On April 16, 1556, he was burned at the stake on Jesus Green , Cambridge, for refusing to renounce the Protestant faith.
Between 1632 and the 19th century, the Bennet family and later the Adeane family owned an estate there. The latter had the Babraham Hall built on it in 1833 by Henry John Adeane .
The antiquarian William Cole (1714–1782) lived in Babraham as a child when his father was the administrator of the owners of Babraham Hall. In the 19th century, Babraham was the home of Jonas Webb , a well-known rancher who played a vital role in raising Southdown sheep .
church
There was likely a church in the village as early as the time of the Norman conquest of England , although the first official records are from the late 12th century. The current parish church of St. Peter from the 12th century consists of a choir, a three-aisled nave and a west tower. The choir and lower part of the tower date from the 13th century, although there is evidence of an earlier building. The nave was rebuilt in the 15th century.
village life
There is a primary school in the village called Babraham Primary School , which was founded in 1959. There is a pub, the George Inn , which already existed as an inn in 1488 and was remodeled around 1600. The village's cricket team won the Cambridgeshire Cricket Association Senior League in 2008 .
Babraham in literature
The novel Doctor Dido by FL Lucas (Cassell, London, 1938) is set in Babraham and the surrounding area from 1793 to 1812. With many local and historical details, he tells the story of Samuel Plampin, a doctor of theology in Cambridge and pastor of St. Peter in Babraham, who brings a young French woman to the rectory as his housekeeper, who escaped the reign of terror of the French Revolution in Cambridge in 1793 was.
Evelyn Barnard 's book The Brothers Are Walking also plays in Babraham.
Top gear
The BBC Auto Show Top Gear filmed the 2008 Alfa Romeo race in Babraham, with Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond and James May parked their cars in the small parking lot next to The George Inn.
Individual evidence
- ^ AD Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names , Oxford Paperback Reference (2003). ISBN 978-0198527589
- ^ Clergy of Church of England database
- ↑ a b c d Babraham village - history . Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
- ^ A b c A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely , Volume 6 1978, pp. 19-30.
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '46 " N , 0 ° 12' 21.3" E