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A long, timber-framed thatched cottage stands beside a dirt road with a small van parked near the trees on the left.

Cottages, Church Lane, Longstanton 1929 (Photo L Cobbett) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Church Lane / Church Street / St Michael’s Lane, Longstanton

History of Church Lane

Section of an 1886 Ordnance Survey map showing the pink-shaded footprint of a church within a churchyard and nearby houses.

Church Lane, Longstanton OS1886

Two adjacent pale-rendered cottages with tiled roofs sit beside a quiet country road under an overcast sky.

Church Lane, Longstanton (RGL2026)

A white rendered cottage with a tiled roof and black base stands on a gravel path, with a grey door and matching windows.

Church Lane, Longstanton (RGL2026)


1881 Church Lane

William Stanley, 44, ag.lab., b Long Stanton

 

John Doggett, 28, ag.labourer, b Long Stanton

 

William Ship, 73, shepherd and church clerk, b Long Stanton

 

Simon Crisp, 25, ag.lab., b Long Stanton

 

Elizabeth Shipp, 63, b Long Stanton

 

William Rignell, 62, ag. lab., b Long Stanton

 

Josiah Chapman, 37, carpenter, b Coton

 

Benjamin Wallman, 67, b Long Stanton

 

Thomas Doggett, 66, ag.lab., b Oakington

 

John Stanley, 64, ag.lab., b Long Stanton

 

2 buildings uninhabited

 

John Peck, 49, ag.lab., b Long Stanton

 

William Stanley, 77, ag.lab., b Chesterton


1891

Crisp Rogers, 49,  ag.lab., b Long Stanton

 

William Rignell, 68, ag,lab., b Long Stanton


1901

Bernard Acres, 42, foreman on farm, b Herts

 

Alfred Rogers, 30, ag.lab., b Long Stanton All Saints

 

Francis Rust, 91, living on own means, b Long Stanton St Michael

 

William Stukins, 43, horsekeeper on farm, b Long Stanton St Michael

 

Alfred Crisp, 50, railway platelayer, b Long Stanton St Michael

 

Frederick J Parr, 36, stockman on farm, b Swaffham

 

William Collis, 45, ag.lab., b Long Stanton All Saints

 

William Layton, 37, yardman flock, b Wicken

 

Thomas Doggett, 86, ag.lab., b Oakington

 

Alfred Shipp,  59, ag.lab., b Long Stanton St Michael

 

Inholm Farm

John Rymer, 36, stockman on farm

 

Oliver Pink, 29, horsekeeper on farm, b Long Stanton All Saints

Elizabeth, 25, b Swavesey

Mary Eliza Pink, 4 mos, b Swavesey


1911 Church Lane

Alfred Pink, 30, groom and gardener, b Longstanton

Harriet Pink, 63, mother, b Over

Bertha Pink, 14, sister, b Longstanton


St Michael’s cottages in Church Lane had been built in 1759. They were demolished in 1935.

 

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