A sunburst design carved into a rectangular wooden plaque with a prominent central oval and radiating pointed rays.

Sun carving, possibly medieval, found in a cottage in Linton © Museum of Cambridge

Linton Data

Mike Petty's Linton Scrapbook

Narrow street in Linton with an overhanging corner building on the left and a cluster of indistinct figures in the distance.

Linton High Street, 1933 (MoC224/54) ?location?

A row of two-story white painted buildings with dark tiled roofs and sash windows lines a curved street in a rural village.

Linton (MoC141/57) location unknown

A white, single-story thatched cottage with decorative wall pargetting and a brick chimney at the end of the roof.

Linton (MoC415/64) location unknown

A white, single-story thatched cottage with decorative plasterwork and a brick wall running along the front.

Linton (MoC415/64) location unknown

A man in a suit and flat cap stands with one foot on the rail of a wooden clapper gate set in a post-and-rail fence.

Clapper style, Linton (MoC702.88)

A narrow dirt path leads through a row of mature trees beside a stream, with a faint silhouette of a building in the distance.

Linton 1930, location unknown (MoC227/54)

Black and white photograph on paper with handwritten notes, showing women in uniform standing by an open-backed vintage truck.

Linton Girl Guides of to camp at Dersingham

A group of girls in uniform posing for a formal portrait behind a banner, with a handwritten list of their names underneath.

Linton Girl Guides

Tall wooden longcase clock with a square face and Roman numerals standing in a corner next to a small white wall label.

Long case clock by Wrights of Linton (MoC)

Detailed brass clock face with central hands and engraved script reading Wright Linton flanked by two sub-dials.

Long case clock by Wrights of Linton (MoC)

Further information about Linton:

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp80-105

And Mike Petty’s on-line Scrapbook:

https://archive.org/details/LintonScrapbook1897To1990

1648 The Linton Uprising was an attempt, led by a Captain Reynolds from Castle Camps, to raise a relieving force for the Royalist army besieged at Colchester.

See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire p.69.

1812 There was a large fire in the town. A man was convicted on the evidence given by his son. The body was buried on the north side of the church.

In 1913 the Cambridge Antiquarian Society were given a presentation about the history of Linton by W M Palmer which was reproduced in the Cambridge Chronicle and printed as a brochure:

Linton Antiquities 1913

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