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Whitewashed cottages with thatched roofs and brick chimneys stand behind a rustic wooden fence in a village setting.

Cottages on church yard wall, Cottenham (photo E Smith)

Cottages (Church Close) nr church, Cottenham

History of cottages on churchyard wall

Section of a historical map showing All Saints’ churchyard, numbered plots, and clusters of pink and grey building footprints.

Cottenham OS 1887

The cottages on the churchyard wall were pulled down in 1930 when the last resident, Arthur ‘Dick’ Hyam, moved into a new council house on Twentypence Road.

 

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