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Sun carving, possibly medieval, found in a cottage in Linton © Museum of CambridgeFurther information about Linton:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp80-105
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And Mike Petty’s on-line Scrapbook:
https://archive.org/details/LintonScrapbook1897To1990
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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:
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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.
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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.
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