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1885 Ordnance Survey map showing Limberhurst Farm with its buildings, surrounding fields, a stream, and a nearby ford.

Limberhurst Farm, Horseheath, OS 1885

Limbery’s / Limberhurst Farm, Horseheath

History of Limbery's

Listed Building

Cottage. Early C17, extended late C17-C18. Renovated. Timber-framed rendered and long straw thatch, half-hipped to east and west ends.


Enid Porter writes in Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore:

A ghost allegedly haunted Money Lane in Horseheath. It is a local tradition that a former occupant of Limbery’s once did hid some money in the lane and that since his death he returns from time to time to look for his treasure or to see that it is still there.

Building dates

  • Built 1600–1640
Source for this date
  • Built 1600–1640: Listed building: Early C17

Tags

  • folklore
  • ghost
  • legend
  • Listed building

Projects

  • Horseheath

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