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Hodson’s Folly, Coe Fen
History of Hodson's Folly
Hodson’s Folly
This is a summerhouse built in 1887 by John Hodson, butler at Pembroke College, in order to keep an eye on his daughter as she swam in the river.
Link to Cambridge City information board about Hodson’s Folly:
and a Wikipedia article about Coe Fen generally:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coe_Fen
In 2016 Allan Brigham wrote a history of the folly for the Cambridgeshire Local History Review which you can read as a PDF here.
Hodson’s Garden. Allan Brigham. Cambridgeshire Local History Review 2016
Gwen Raverat notes in Period Piece p.34 that the bathing places at Sheep’s Green and Coe Fen were on the upper river so that the bathers didn’t have to swim in the raw sewage from the city.
Coe Fen (MoCPH391.85)
Coe Fen by Henry Moule (MoC12/147/51)
Cambridge from Coe Fen, Mary C Greene
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