Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • East Cambridge­shire
  • /
  • Chippenham
  • Back Forward
A row of old cottages with timber-framed walls, tiled roofs, and tall chimneys, seen behind a wooden picket fence.

New Row cottages, Chippenham, 1930 (photo J H Bullock) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

New Row, High Street, Chippenham

History of New Row

In 1922 there was an epidemic of fever in Chippenham. The unsanitary condition of the cottages in New Row were blamed. There was poor ventilation in these ‘back to back’ dwellings.

Projects

  • Chippenham

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

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@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Chippenham

Bowl Barrow, Isleham Plantation, Chippenham

Hill Plantation Barrow nr Waterhall Farm

1 – 16 High Street, Chippenham

41 New Street, Chippenham

Phantom Cottage

Lumber Hill bowl barrow nr Chippenham Stud

Badlingham Manor, Chippenham

36 High Street, Chippenham

Tharp Arms, High Street, Chippenham

7 New Street, Chippenham