Four draft horses in harness pull a timber carriage loaded with large logs, attended by three men on a grassy track.

Horseheath, hauling oaks 1928 (photo Leslie Hancock)(Cambridgeshire Collection)

Horseheath Data

Mike Petty's Horseheath Scrapbook

In the 1885 OS map of the village two smithies are shown. In 1871 Thomas Simkin was a blacksmith at Village End, Horseheath, aged 53, with his wife Mary, 53, Charles, 20, Julia, 16 and Mary A, 12.

Detail from an 1885 Ordnance Survey map of Horseheath showing roads, buildings, plots, a post office, and two smithies.

Horseheath, OS 1885

In 1883 Thomas Simkin, blacksmith of Horseheath died and his property was valued. The document is held by the Museum of Cambridge.

Thomas Simkin probate, Horseheath, 1883

In 1915 Catherine Parsons explained that witchcraft was still taken seriously in Horseheath. (See PCAS vol.19 Notes of Cambridgeshire Witchcraft).