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Orwell village sign featuring a painted scene of a stone well and a building beside a path, topped with a blue scroll reading ORWELL.

Orwell village sign (RGL2025)

Orwell Data

Orwell data

Orwell Past and Present:

http://www.orwellpastandpresent.org.uk

Orwell History:

https://www.orwellparishcouncil.co.uk/history/

Wimpole Past website:

https://www.wimpolepast.org/default.asp (archived copy)

Mike Petty’s scrapbook

https://archive.org/details/OrwellScrapbook1897To1990

A cast iron pump with a pineapple-shaped finial stands against a backdrop of green ivy leaves and brown dried foliage.

Pump Town Green Road, Orwell (RGL2025)

A weathered, rust-spotted cast iron pinecone finial sits atop a dark domed base, with out-of-focus foliage in the background.

Pump Town Green Road, Orwell (RGL2025)

A 1690 map of Orwell, Cambridgeshire, featuring parcel names, acreages, and an ornate coat of arms at the top.

Orwell Map 1690 (RGL2025)

Black and white 1680 map drawing of Orwell village, showing labelled fields, houses, yards, and an area marked The Greene.

Orwell, map detail 1680 (RCHM)

Detail from an 1837 enclosure map showing black-outlined fields and buildings in Orwell with hand-written names and numbers.

Orwell, enclosure map detail 1837 (RCHM)

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