Search by topic
- archaeology
- architecture
- bricklayer
- Building of Local Interest
- carpenter
- church
- crime
- dressmaker
- fire
- Great Eastern Railway
- listed building
- medieval
- oral history
- Public House
- Rattee & Kett
- Religious House
- Roman
- scholar
- school
- Then and Now
- tudor
- women
- work
- world war one
- world war two
Search by text
116 Low Road, Tunbridge Farm, Burwell
History of Turnbridge Farmhouse
Listed Building
Farmhouse, early and late C17. Originally the manor house of St Omars manor. Two storeys and attics. Early C17 clunch cross-wing to north with quoins and parapet to west rebuilt in small local, late C17 bricks; flint foundations and brick band to stepped clunch plinth; some original ovolo mullioned casement windows, and C19 or modern replacements.
In 2024 BY sent the following note: Robert and Charlotte Mason (census) who owned and lived there, were my great grandparents.
It was always known as Tunbridge Farm or The Tunbridge (not Turnbridge). My grandmother Eliza Mason was born there in 1862. She and her sister Sarah went on a long sailing voyage for their health, on the “Invercargill,” arriving in New Zealand in March 1885. I understand that they both intended to return home but neither of them did, both marrying and settling in New Zealand.
1881 The Turnbridge
Robert Mason, 50, farmer of 120 acres 2 men and 1 boy, b Swaffham Prior
Charlotte Eliza, 48, b Swaffham Prior
Robert, 25, b Australia, imbecile
Sarah Ann, 20, b Swaffham Prior
Tom, 14, b Burwell
Susan Maria, 12, b Burwell
Frederick, 10, b Burwell
Jane Elizabeth, 7, b Burwell
Annie, 4, b Burwell
1891 Turnbridge
Robert Mason, 61, farmer, b Reach
Charlotte E Mason, 60, b Reach
Robert Mason, 34, b Australia, imbecile
Annie Mason, 14, elementary pupil teacher, b Burwell
Contribute
Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@
License
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
