2 - 3 Benet Place, Cambridge

2 – 3 Benet Place, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

History of 2 - 3 Benet Place

Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: early 19th century development.

In 1921 A B Gray noted that the railing of no.2 was embedded in an ash tree.

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1861

(2?) Eliza Hayward, 61, widow, landed proprietor, b Cambridge

Brooks Woodcock, 25, fund holder

Francesca M Hough, daughter, 30, b Cambridge

Lewis Hough, son in law, 32, MA Capt militia, b Middlesex

James Nelson, 48, MA Incumbent Halifax

Jane Nelson, 51, b Essex

Maria Speed, 40, cook, b Abington

Rebecca Dyer, servant, 31, housemaid, b Essex

(3?)

Joseph Romilly, head, 69, clergyman without cure of souls, b London

George Thomas Romilly, 38, clerk war office, b Montreal Canada

Harriett Sandfield, 34, servant, b Cambridge

Caroline Howe, 31, servant, b Cambridge

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1871

(2)

Eliza Hayward, 71, landowner, b Cambridge

Brook W, 35, fund owner, b Cambridge

Maria Speach, 50, cook, b Abington

Rebecca Dyer, 41, housemaid, b Essex

Alice Scarr, 23, housemaid, b London

Sarah Pentecost, visitor, 53, servant out of place [looking for a position], b Cambridge

(3)

Ann Wado, 36, servant, b Cambs

Elizabeth Reeve, 46, servant, b Teversham

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1881

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1891

(2) James I Lang, 47, vicar of St Benedict’s, b East Indies

Edith M, 33, b Australia

Mary V H, 5, b Cambridge

Ruth V H, 2, b Cambridge

Edith G V Hemet, sister, 21, b Australia

Anne E Weeks, servant, 38, nurse, b Dorset

Annie M Spalding, 25, housemaid, b Burwell

Elizabeth Laston, 26, cook, b Middlesex

Thomasine Mattinson, 15, nursemaid, b Westmoreland

(3) Algernon W Outram, 37, secretary to the Leys School, b London

Jessie E, 23, b Islington

Harold W S, 3, b Cambridge

Beatrice E, 3 mos, b Cambridge

Emily Fenton, cousin, 59, living on her own means, b Middlesex

Frances E Edwards, visitor, 46, b London

Millicent Halsey, servant, 15, b Hunts

Mary E Cornwell, servant, 19, b Yorks

Kate Perry, 18, servant, b Cambridge

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1901

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1911

(2) Fanny Henrietta Hort, 74, widow, private means, b Yorks

Ellen Margaret, 48, b Gloucs

Mary Blee, cook housekeeper, 66, widow, b Herts

Martha Emmings, 29, temporary parlour maid, b Cambridge

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1913

(2) Mrs Hort

(3) Clifton Wilbraham Collins [1844-1918: writer on Classical topics]

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1962

(2) Addenbrookes Hospital Psychiatric Dept

(3) Addenbrookes Hospital Nurses Hostel

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1970

JT worked here at Fulbourn’s psychiatric outpatient clinic from1970-71 in the newly created position of ‘social worker in the field of Drug Dependence’ in Cambridge. She emailed us in 2026 with documents outlining the issues which workers in this field faced at the time. She was partly employed by the NHS, partly by local government. At the time she lived at 10 Norwich Street.

Drug Social Work Cambridge report 1970-1971

Drug Social Worker Cambridge job description