Longstowe

Longstowe
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Longstowe
Longstowe shown within Cambridgeshire
Population	205 (2011)
OS grid reference	TL310557
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CAMBRIDGE
Postcode district	CB3
Dialling code	01954
EU Parliament	East of England
List of places UK England Cambridgeshire 52°10′59″N 0°04′59″W / 52.183°N 0.083°W / 52.183; -0.083Coordinates: 52°10′59″N 0°04′59″W / 52.183°N 0.083°W / 52.183; -0.083

Longstowe is a civil parish and small rural village of nearly 200 residents in South Cambridgeshire, England, 12 miles (19 km) west of Cambridge. The population was measured at 205 at the 2011 Census. It is situated on the western side of the A1198 road (Ermine Street), running for about a mile along the B1046.

Seventeen people were counted at Longstowe for the 1086 Domesday Book. An area known as 'Town Green' around 1800 may have been the centre of the medieval village which had spread to the south by the middle of the 13th Century.

Most of Longstowe's woodland had been cleared by the end of the 13th Century, although 40 acres (160,000 m²) were held by the lord of the manor in the 16th Century, in addition to furze and heath. The manor was purchased by Anthony Cage the elder in 1571, and he established 'a little park for deer and a warren for conies' around the new house. The acreage of the manor's woodland grew by the end of the 18th Century. Until inclosure in 1799, agriculture was carried out in three open fields.

The Varsity Line passed through Longstowe parish to the south of the village although the Great North Road was not important to the village; the settlement reached it only in the late 19th century. The Old North Road railway station was built just over the boundary in Bourn parish and opened in 1862 and encouraged development in the east of the parish.

Longstowe once had three pubs although only the Red House now remains. The Three Horseshoes Inn, built in 1865 and closed in 2001, was renamed after Golden Miller, the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National-winning racehorse which was trained by Basil Briscoe at Longstowe Hall.

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