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Arbury Camp / Orchard Park

History of Arbury Camp

A paper published by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society can be found here:

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/cambridge_antiq/contents.cfm?vol_id=970

Historic England web site entry can be found here:

https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=372005

Royal Commission 1995:

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1893-1/dissemination/pdf/englishh2-363628_1.pdf

The road layout of the Orchard park development has tried to preserve the basic shape of the Iron Age site.

The Domesday Book name for Chesterton was ‘Cestretone’, (‘farm by the fortified place’).

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  • iron age

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