Six Mile Bottom
| Six Mile Bottom | |
|---|---|
| Population | Expression error: "83 (2006 estimate)" must be numeric |
| OS grid reference | TL577569 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CAMBRIDGE |
| Postcode district | CB8 0 |
| Dialling code | 01638 |
Six Mile Bottom is a hamlet within the parish of Little Wilbraham, near Cambridge in England.
The hamlet was built in the 19th century, and is named for its distance from the start of Newmarket Racecourse and because it lies in a valley bottom. Six Mile Bottom railway station served the village from the late 1840s (by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway) until 1967. The brick-and-flint church of St. George was built in 1935.[1]
Among the earliest residents were George and Augusta Leigh, she being Lord Byron's half-sister.[2] Their residence is now the Country House Hotel, Swynford Paddocks.[3]
The hamlet has a pub/restaurant, The Green Man, which also provides accommodation.
Gallery
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St George's Church -
The Green Man public house -
The old railway station
References
- ^ Colburtn, Ben; Ynys-Mon, Mark (18 July 2005). "Cambridgeshire Churches: Six Mile Bottom, St George". www.druidic.org. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- ^ Fraistat, Neil; Jones, Steven E.; Stahmer, Carl (eds.). The Byron Chronology: 1814-1816. University of Maryland. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- ^ "History". Swynford Paddocks hotel. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- Wareham, A F; Wright, A P M (2002), Little Wilbraham, A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire), British History Online, pp. pp. 319-321, retrieved 4 April 2009
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