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In 1923 (Cambridge Chronicle) W M Palmer described:
….. a bank at right angles to the road can be seen running through the orchard. This represents the north side of a Roman camp, which was quite plain before 1840, but has now been almost obliterated by cultivation. The camp was 200 yards square and surrounded by a vallum … between this camp and Black Peak, a Roman burial place containing 17 urns was discovered by Mr Joseph Campkin, brother to the two ladies who used to teach many of us when we were infants. The objects he found are now in the British Museum.
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1881:
First Family
William Reynolds Day, 43, labourer, b Melbourn
Mary Jane, 19, b Melbourn
Harry, 17, labourer, b Melbourn
Charles, 9, b Melbourn
Frank, 11, b Melbourn
Flora, 6, b Melbourn
Second Family
Thomas Godfrey, 67, small farmer, b Bluntisham
Mary Ann, 56, b Dry Drayton
John, 69, brother, income from rent of land, b Bluntisham
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1891:
Mary Ann Godfrey, widow, 67, Farmer, born Dry Drayton
Emma Laurie, visitor, 19, born Cambridge
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