Stow cum quy
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 13 ′ N , 0 ° 14 ′ E | ||
| OS National Grid | TL520606 | ||
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| Residents | 426 | ||
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| Post town | CAMBRIDGE | ||
| ZIP code section | CB25 | ||
| prefix | 01223 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | East of England | ||
| Shire county | Cambridgeshire | ||
| District | South Cambridgeshire | ||
| Website: www.stowcumquy.co.uk | |||
Stow cum Quy [ ˌstoʊ_kəm_ˈkwaɪ ], locally mostly abbreviated as Quy , is a community in Cambridgeshire , England . The village is about 6 km northeast of the city of Cambridge between Burwell Road (B1102) and the Cambridge to Newmarket road (A1303), which has existed since the Middle Ages . The area of the municipality is 764 hectares .
location
The place has a direct road connection to the A14 via the "Quy" junction . There is a public transport connection via a bus route between Cambridge and Newmarket, which runs through the neighboring towns of Bottisham, Lode and Burwell. Quy is well developed for bicycle traffic.
Nearby are the National Trust- managed Anglesey Abbey and the Quy Fen and Wilbraham Fen nature reserves . On the northern border of the parish begin the formative marshland of the Fens , which extend north to The Wash bay in Lincolnshire .
history
The name of the village is based on two Anglo-Saxon settlements that can be traced back to 1066. A settlement called "Stow" (meaning "elevated place", since it is the highest elevation in the immediate vicinity) was roughly in the area of today's church. The second settlement with the name "Cow-ey" ("Cow island" or "Kuh Insel" after its location directly in the marshes) was where the Swan Pub is today. In the course of the 13th century, both places were administered together ecclesiastically and later secularly. Since the early 14th century, the united place has mostly been referred to as "Stow cum Quy", or "Stow Quy". From the 20th century, the shortened name "Quy" became common.
There are traces of settlement as early as the Bronze Age , from 1086 onwards, concrete population numbers, which fluctuate over the centuries, can be identified or made accessible. With the Fleam Dyke you can still find parts of a fortification system in the immediate vicinity of the village, which served to secure the medieval streets. The first mention of a permanent bridge over the Quy Water , flowing north of the village, dates back to 1325.
Until the 13th century, the place had no church, but only had a small chapel. The oldest parts of today's Church of St. Mary are dated around the year 1300, from 1340 the name can be traced. Since then, the building has been expanded and renovated several times.
A street is named after the village-born bishop and theater critic Jeremy Collier (1650–1727).
village life
There are currently four restaurants in Quy. The largest is the Quy Mill Hotel , the oldest the White Swan, which opened in 1750 . Two other pubs are The Missing Sock , founded in the 1840s , and The Wheatsheaf, which dates back to the late 19th century .
The place name sign was erected on the occasion of the silver jubilee of Elizabeth II .
The place had its own schools from the early 19th century until 1978. Since then, the Bottisham Community Primary School has been available for schooling, followed by the Bottisham Village College . There are secondary schools, for example, with the Further Education Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge .
Neighboring places
photos
Place-name sign
Main street with the White Swan
St Mary's village church
The road to Newmarket. On the right in the picture the place itself.
literature
- Wareham, Wright: A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely . tape 10 , 2002, p. 230-233 ( online [accessed March 14, 2014]). , to the general story
- Wareham, Wright: A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely . tape 10 , 2002, p. 242–245 ( online [accessed March 17, 2014]). , on the history of the Church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the history on the website of the place. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
- ↑ Cum is Latin for "with".
- ^ Homepage of the community. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ↑ Text of the sticker on the place-name sign.
- ^ Wareham, Wright: A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely . tape 10 , 2002, p. 246 ( online [accessed March 14, 2014]).
Web links
- Homepage of the Stow-cum-Quy Parish Council