Grantchester
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Grantchester | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | CAMBRIDGE | |
Postcode district | CB3 | |
Dialling code | 01223 | |
Police | Cambridgeshire | |
Fire | Cambridgeshire | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
Grantchester is a village and civil parish on the
Name
The village of Grantchester is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as Grantesete and Grauntsethe.[1] Before, it is also mentioned briefly in book IV, chapter 19 of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. John de Grauntsete, a lawyer who had a successful career as a judge in Ireland, was born in Grantchester, c. 1270, and took his surname from his birthplace. The present name derives from the common Old English suffix -ceaster (variously developed as "-cester", "-caster", and -"chester"), used in names of forts or fortified cities throughout England.
Grantchester is sometimes identified as the Cair Grauth
Overview
Grantchester is said to have the world's highest concentration of Nobel Prize winners, most of these presumably being current or retired academics from the nearby University of Cambridge.[4] Students and tourists often travel from Cambridge by
The footpath to Cambridge that runs beside
In popular culture
Grantchester is the subject of "
Grantchester Church
The oldest parts of the
Graveyard
The church is surrounded by a graveyard, where the burials include:[16]
- Constantine Walter Benson (1909–1982), ornithologist and author
- Francis Burkitt (1864–1935), theologian
- Anne Clough (1820–1892), the first principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Dermot Freyer (1883-1970), Irish author and political activist
- Irving B. Fritz (1927–1996), physiologist and endocrinologist
- Sir James Gray (1891–1975), zoologist
- Dame Elizabeth Hill (1900–1996), academic linguist
- Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings (1913–2004), President of the International Court of Justice.
- Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885–1958), botanist and explorer
- Sir Desmond Lee (1908–1993), classical scholar, headmaster of Clifton College and Winchester College, President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge.
- J. Rawson Lumby (1831–1895), theologian
- Arthur Henry Mann (1850–1929), organist and composer of hymn tunes
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Headmaster of Tonbridge School and Eton College.
- Jean Purdy (1945-1985), embryologist and co-founder of the Bourn Hall Clinic with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards
- G. W. Shaw (1928–2006), biologist and expert on academic dress
- Robert Stevenson(1905–1986), film writer and director
- Charles Swainson (1820–1887), theologian
- David J. Thouless (1934–2019), physicist
- Robert H. Thouless (1894–1984), psychologist and parapsychologist
It also contains the
Barrel race
Every year on Boxing Day (26 December), Grantchester holds an inter-village barrel race which is around 40 minutes long and ends with a hog roast at the Rupert Brooke pub. This tradition dates back to the 1960s.[18]
Legends
An underground passage is said to run from the Old Manor house to King's College Chapel two miles away. It was said that a fiddler who offered to follow the passage set off playing his fiddle; the music became fainter and fainter, until it was heard no more and the fiddler was never seen or heard of again.[19] This story is told of many supposed tunnels. On a 17th-century map of Grantchester, one of the fields is called Fiddler's Close.[20]
Gallery
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The Green Man
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Grantchester Meadows
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Manor Farmhouse
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Grantchester Meadows sign
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Grantchester Village Hall
References
- ^ "Open Domesday: Grantchester". Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ Nennius (attrib.). Theodor Mommsen (ed.). Historia Brittonum, VI. Composed after AD 830. (in Latin) Hosted at Latin Wikisource.
- ^ Ford, David Nash. "The 28 Cities of Britain Archived 15 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine" at Britannia. 2000.
- ^ "Nine things you didn't know about Grantchester". Cambridge News. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ a b c Kelly, Tony (10 August 1997). "Yes Rupert, there's still honey for tea..." The Independent. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ Wright, Karen (9 June 2012). "Helaine Blumenfeld: 'Art is a commitment to risk, a reflection of life – nothing stays the same'". The Independent. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History Martin Garrett - 2004 -- Page viii 1902669797 "Its propensity to flood has threaded through Cambridge from the pubs in Grantchester to the Ditton Plough, a broad green ribbon of flood plain — Grantchester Meadows, The Iammas Land, the Backs, Jesus Green, Midsummer Common, ... "
- ^ Reynolds, Stanley (6 June 2013). "Tom Sharpe obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ Jordison, Sam (9 July 2009). "Going swimming with Roger Deakin". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ "Byron's Pool". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ^ "Map of Byron's Pool". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ^ "A Pink Floyd spotter's guide to Cambridge". Cambridge News. 26 August 2013. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ [1] Archived 1 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary and St Andrew (1309436)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ Elliott, Chris (20 April 2017). "The new vicar of Grantchester is a woman - and she won't be trying to solve crimes". Cambridge News. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ "Interesting People" (PDF). Grantchester Church. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ "GRANTCHESTER (SS. ANDREW AND MARY) CHURCHYARD". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ Thorpe, Annabelle (20 December 2009). "Where to go bonkers on Boxing Day". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ISBN 9780340165973.
- ^ [2] Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Grantchester village website
- Church website
- Grantchester Cricket Club
- "Rupert Brooke's Grantchester" : the full text of the famous poem, plus a commentary and photographs by two local residents
- The Orchard
- Colburn, Ben; Ynys-Mon, Mark. "Grantchester, SS. Andrew & Mary". Cambridgeshire Churches.