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Willow Walk

Willow Walk

History of Willow Walk

Dolls’s Close

See Maids’ Causeway for history of these buildings.

On 6th April 1821 an advert in the Cambridge Chronicle described two houses in Willow Walk as being in that “generally admired spot Willow Walk, so judiciously allowed for pleasantness, salubrity of the air, and uniformity of building as well as for the extensive views they command (with an almost sure prospect of not being built before) to be unrivalled in the town.”

When built in 1815 this was the first symmetrical terrace in Cambridge and indeed were in open country. Charles Humfrey kept the freehold of all the houses in Willow Walk but sold 40-year leases  on all but nos. 2,3,4,9 and 10, which were let at rents of between £12 and £8.

Willow Walk

Willow Walk, looking west from Fair Street, March 1975 (MoC333/75)

Archway to the back of Willow Walk houses

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