Babraham

Babraham is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England, about six miles south-east of Cambridge. At the edge of the village lies the Babraham Institute, are explored in the cell biology and molecular biology. The municipality covers an area of 9.66 Babraham km ² in approximately rectangular shape.

History

On the border with Stapleford traces of a Roman villa have been found.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village name was listed as Badburgham, meaning " farmstead or village of a woman named Beaduburh " means. Maybe the site was moved because the church is 400 meters from the present village. Babraham was relatively wealthy because of its wool trade in the Middle Ages.

John Hullier was vicar of the parish Babraham from 1549 until it was withdrawn in February this 1556. On April 16, 1556 he was burned at the stake on Jesus Green, Cambridge, because he refused to renounce the Protestant faith ..

Between 1632 and the 19th century, the Bennet family and later the family Adeane had an estate there. The latter let it build in 1833 by Henry John Adeane Babraham Hall.

The antiquary William Cole (1714-1782) lived as a child in Babraham, as his father was the manager of the owners of Babraham Hall was in the 19th century home Babraham Jonas Webb, a well known rancher, was a pivotal role in the development of Southdown sheep has played.

Church

There was probably already at the time of the Norman Conquest of England, a church in the village, although the first official recordings from the late 12th century date. The present parish church of St. Peter from the 12th century consists of a choir, an aisled nave and a west tower. The choir and the lower part of the tower dates from the 13th century, although there is evidence of an earlier building. The nave was rebuilt in the 15th century.

Village life

In the village there is the elementary school named Babraham Primary School, which was founded in 1959. There is a pub, the George Inn, which existed already in 1488 as a guest house and was rebuilt in 1600. The cricket team of the village won the 2008 Cambridgeshire Cricket Association Senior League.

Babraham in the literature

The novel Doctor Dido by FL Lucas ( Cassell, London, 1938) plays in the period from 1793 to 1812 in Babraham and its surroundings. With many local and historical details, he tells the story of Samuel Plampin, a doctor of theology at Cambridge and pastor of St. Peter in Babraham, brings a young French woman as his housekeeper in the rectory, who escaped in 1793 the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution to Cambridge had.

Evelyn Barnard's book The Brothers Are Walking also plays in Babraham.

Top Gear

The BBC auto show Top Gear filmed in 2008 the Alfa Romeo race in Babraham, where the Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May parked their car in the small parking lot next to The George Inn.