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A multi-gabled brick house with multiple storeys and rectangular windows sits behind a wire fence and overgrown garden.

Burystead, Wilburton, 1926 (photo O H Jermy) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

The Burystead, Wilburton

History of the Burystead

A section of an 1887 Ordnance Survey map showing the Manor House, The Oaks, and surrounding fields and roads in Wilburton.

The Manor House (Burystead) Wilburton OS map 1887

Listed building

House, formerly the manor house. Probably c1610 for Sir John Jolles, Alderman of City of London, but some of the features would seem to be of later date. Altered internally later C19.

Barn. C17.

Barn. Early-mid C17. (Historic England)

A multi-gabled, red-brick manor house with leaded-pane windows stands before a gravel courtyard under a partly cloudy sky.

The Burystead, Wilburton (RGL2026)


A Pell, Reminiscences of Albert Pell, 1908, recalls life at the old Manor House at that time.


1933

Handwritten letter dated 30 April 1933 from The Burystead, Wilburton, featuring cursive ink script on a folded piece of paper.

1933 Margaret Pell letter to Constance Pyle

Handwritten letter on paper with cursive ink script visible in several lines, ending with the signature Margaret Pell.

1933 Margaret Pell letter to Constance Pyle

A handwritten letter on stationery with a faint embossed header, featuring black ink cursive script across the page.

Letter to Constance Pyle

Handwritten document on light paper with faint, reversed text visible through the back and dark ink forming a brief note.

Letter to Constance Pyle

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