Sawston pea picking c.1901

Sawston data

Sawston data

970 Salsingetune (the farm of the family of Salse)

1086 Salsiton

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Sawston Village:

http://www.sawstonhistory.org.uk

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Vanishing Cambridgeshire p.159, notes that the Sawston pea-picking custom dated back to 1554 when John Huntingdon established a charity which obliged the owners of Huntingdon’s manor to sow two acres of peas ‘for the relief of the poor people.’

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“Sawston as Seen,” edited by Mary Dicken and Audrey Lambart (2000)

This contains various reminiscences:

George Challis: Sawston in the 1860s and 70s

A Tyrant in Sawston about the life of Thomas Sutton Evans

Traviss Frederick Teversahm: Sawston between 1886 and 1942

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Mike Petty:

https://archive.org/details/SawstonScrapbook1897To1990

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