Horseheath, Cambridgeshire

Historical Description

Horseheath, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands near the boundaries with Essex and Suffolk, on the Cambridge old road, 3 miles NE from Bartlow station on the G.E.R., and 3½ E by N from Linton. There is a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Linton. The parish includes also the hamlet of Horse-heath Green. Acreage, 1922; population, 507. The manor, with Horseheath Lodge, a mansion of white brick in the Elizabethan style, belongs to the Batson family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net. value, £249 with residence. Patrons, the Governors of the Charterhouse, London. The church is an ancient building of flint and rabble in the Perpendicular style of the 14th and 15th centuries; consists of nave and chancel, with N and S porches, and a tower; and contains a 14th century brass of Sir John d'Argentine; it was restored in 1891. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and some small charities.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Horseheath from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horseheath (All Saints))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Horseheath are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cambridgeshire papers online:

• Cambridge Independent Press
• Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
• Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.