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Sun carving, possibly medieval, found in a cottage in Linton © Museum of Cambridge

Linton Data

Mike Petty's Linton Scrapbook

Linton High Street, 1933 (MoC224/54) ?location?

Linton (MoC141/57) location unknown

Linton (MoC415/64) location unknown

Linton (MoC415/64) location unknown

Clapper style, Linton (MoC702.88)

Linton 1930, location unknown (MoC227/54)

Linton Girl Guides of to camp at Dersingham

Linton Girl Guides

Long case clock by Wrights of Linton (MoC)

Long case clock by Wrights of Linton (MoC)

Further information about Linton:

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp80-105

And Mike Petty’s on-line Scrapbook:

https://archive.org/details/LintonScrapbook1897To1990

1648 The Linton Uprising was an attempt, led by a Captain Reynolds from Castle Camps, to raise a relieving force for the Royalist army besieged at Colchester.

See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire p.69.

1812 There was a large fire in the town. A man was convicted on the evidence given by his son. The body was buried on the north side of the church.

In 1913 the Cambridge Antiquarian Society were given a presentation about the history of Linton by W M Palmer which was reproduced in the Cambridge Chronicle and printed as a brochure:

Linton Antiquities 1913

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