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Cottenham in Cambridge County England History and GeographyCOTTENHAM, a parish in the hundred of CHESTERTON, county of CAMBRIDGE, 6¾ miles (N.) from Cambridge, containing 1488 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £36. 15., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The dairies, which are numerous in this parish and neighbourhood, are famed for producing excellent cheese. The adventurers' land, chiefly enclosed from the old river Ouse and the common adjoining, was sometimes subject to inundation, but, in consequence of late improvements, this has been in a great measure prevented. A branch of the old Ouse passes near the village, and meets the river Cam below Streatham. It was to this village that Geoffrey, abbot of Crowland, sent the monks who first established a regular course of academical education at Cambridge: in 1676 two-thirds of it were destroyed by fire. A charity school was founded by Mrs. Catherine Pepys, in 1703, who gave a house for a schoolmaster, and £100 to purchase land, the rent to be paid as a salary for teaching sixteen poor children; and in 1728 Mrs. Alice Rogers augmented this endowment with £10 per annum, for five more, and the same sum annually for apprenticing poor children, a bequest for the same purpose having been previously made in 1671, by Mr. Moreton, who gave a moiety of an estate in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn: in 1715 Mrs. Jane Bingham gave £15 per annum for the like use. This was the birth-place of Archbishop Tenison, author of several theological works, who died in 1715, aged seventy-nine years. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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