An 1885 Ordnance Survey map of Great Shelford shows streets, plots, buildings, railway lines, and labelled landmarks.

Great Shelford High Street 1885 OS map

Shelfords data

Shelford data

A grassy path leads to a flat field framed by trees, with large wooden farm implements resting in the foreground.

Elms by Little Shelford (MoC)

A gabled stone house with arched windows sits behind a metal gate and a hedge, surrounded by tall, leafy trees.

Little Shelford (location unknown)

Great Shelford:

https://shelford.org/history.htm

Great Shelford Online:

https://www.greatshelford.online

Little Shelford History:

https://www.littleshelfordhistory.com

Little Shelford Online:

https://www.littleshelford.online

Mike Petty:

https://archive.org/details/ShelfordsScrapbook1897To1990

The Great Shelford Arsonist – 1833

Contemporary Newspaper account:

John Stallan – Shelford Arsonist – 1833

Great Shelford arson incidents

Also see:

https://sites.google.com/site/greatshelfordhistory/village-stories-and-people/the-shelford-arsonist

The location of John Stallan’s home was described by Fanny Wale as being behind Woodlands in Woollards Lane. After his execution his widow and their son were living in College Cottages, High Green, Great Shelford in 1841:

Elizabeth Stallan, 45

William Stallan, 9

Elizabeth died in 1848.

A poem believed to have been written by John Stallan lamenting his fate was sent to Capturing Cambridge in 2022 by BF, a descendant:

A document fragment featuring three stanzas of printed poem text, written from the first-person perspective of a condemned man.

John Stallan poem pt1

A fragment of a printed document featuring twelve lines of serif-font poetry about confession, fire, and impending death.

John Stallan poem pt2

A printed document containing twelve lines of verse about a crime committed in Shelford, typeset in black on cream paper.

John Stallan poem pt3

1833 John Stallan Funeral Sermon

1850

Valuation of the effects of the Late Richard Maris of Great Shelford, died 8th July 1850.

Little Shelford. Roll of Service 1915 (from Fanny Wale ‘Shelford Parva’) compiled by Lieut Col Louis Tebbutt

K F Andrews, 1st Cambs Reg TF

Meyrick V Bagnall, Corpl, R Eng

Walter Bowtell, Pt, 8th Suffolk Reg

Charles Braddick, seaman, ‘Princess Royal’

Bert Cambridge, seaman, ‘Maidstone’

Henry Carter, driver, ASC

Charles Cracknell, Pt, Sea. Highrs

Ernest W Darley, Pt, ASC

Betram Dickerson, Trooper, L Suff Hus Yeo

Victor A Dickerson, Gunner, Royal Field Artillery

Fred B Dockerill, Trooper, L Suff Hus YeoTrooper, L Suff Hus Yeo

Sidney C Dockerill, Corpl, 1st Cambs Ref TF

Stanley Ellis, Pt, 7th (S) Suff Reg

Stephen Ellis, Pt, 7th (S) Suff Reg

H J Fletcher, Pt, 8th (S) Suff Reg

Edward Gall, Trooper, L Suffolk Hus Yeo

John Godfrey, driver, ASC

John Goodwin, seaman, Royal Navy

William Jackson, Pt, 1st Cambs Reg T F

Alexander Larkin, trooper, L Suffolk Hus Yeo

George Lewin, Pt R W Kent Reg

Thomas Marshall, sapper, R Eng

Ernest Meadows, trooper, L Suffolk Hus Yeo

Fred Pearl, Pt, 8th (S) Suff Reg

F N Platt-Higgins, Lieut 1st Cambs Reg TF

Horace A Plumb, Pt, RAMC

Sidney Plumb, trooper, L Suff Hus

James Purkiss, Sergt, Suff Reg

Llewellyn Rogers, Steward, ‘Indomitable’

Rupert Rogers, trooper, Hamps Yeo

Henry Ryder, gunner, Royal Field Artillery

Wilfred Smith, gunner, Royal Field Artillery

Herbert J Taylor, Pt 1st Cambs Reg

William Taylor, Pt, King’s Own Reg Lancs

H L Thompson, Capt, R Garr Artillery

Leslie H Thornton, Gen Staff, Rifle Brigade

William C Watson, lieut, Somerset LL

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