Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • Essex
  • /
  • Great Chesterford
  • Back Forward
Village sign featuring three relief panels depicting a shire horse, a steam train with passengers, and a horse-drawn coach.

Great Chesterford village sign (RGL2025)

Great Chesterford Data

History of Great Chesterford

A weeping willow overhangs a narrow, murky river filled with algae and reeds, set against a backdrop of dense green trees.

River Cam at Great Chesterford (RGL2025)

The River Cam at Great Chesterford bordered by reeds and willow trees, with two figures standing on the bank to the left.

River Cam at Great Chesterford (RGL2025)

The narrow River Cam flows between thick reeds and vegetation under a cloudy sky, bordered by mature trees and bushes.

River Cam at Great Chesterford (RGL2025)

Projects

  • Great Chesterford

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.

Great Chesterford

Stores and house, South & Carmel Street, Great Chesterford

The Old Post Office, South Street, Great Chesterford

Roman Town, Fort and Cemeteries, Great Chesterford, Essex

Wearn’s Folly, Carmen Street, Great Chesterford

Lavender Cottage, Bakery, Carmen Street, Great Chesterford

Old Vicarage, Church Street, Great Chesterford

Whitgates, School Street, Great Chesterford

Timbers, Old School House, Manor Lane, Great Chesterford

Great Chesterford Primary School

Mortimers, School Street, Great Chesterford