Places to see in ( St Neots - UK )
Places to see in ( St Neots - UK )
St Neots is a town and civil parish in the non metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, England, within the historic county of Huntingdonshire, next to the Bedfordshire county border. St Neots lies on the banks of the River Great Ouse in the Huntingdonshire District, 15 miles (24 km) west of Cambridge and 49 miles (79 km) north of central London.
St Neots is the largest town in Cambridgeshire with a population of approximately 40,000 in 2014. The town is named after the Cornish monk Saint Neot, whose bones were subject to translation from the hamlet of St Neot on Bodmin Moor on consecration of the Priory of St Neots c. 980.
Pilgrimage to St Neots brought prosperity for the town, and it was granted a market charter in 1130. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the town enjoyed further prosperity through corn milling, brewing, stagecoach traffic and railways. After the Second World War, the town and its industry grew rapidly as London councils paid for new housing to be built in the town to rehouse families from London. The first London overspill housing was completed in the early 1960s.
St Neots lies in the valley of the River Great Ouse, partly on the flood plain and partly on slightly higher ground a little further from the water. The Great Ouse is a mature river, once wide and shallow but now controlled by weirs and sluices and usually constrained in a well-defined channel. St Neots developed at the site of a ford where overland routes converged. This was replaced by a medieval bridge, and today there are two further crossings just outside the town, one to the north and another to the south.
St Neots is approximately 49 miles north of London. It is close to the south-western boundary of Huntingdonshire District, and both the city of Cambridge and the county town of Bedford are nearby. St Neots railway station is located on the East Coast Main Line and provides half-hourly trains south to London (London King's Cross) and north to Peterborough. Journey times to London King's Cross typically range from 36 minutes to one hour. The station is managed and served by Great Northern.
St Neots is bypassed by the A1 which links the town by road with London to the south and Peterborough to the north, while the nearby A14 provides access to the Midlands and East Anglia. Regular local buses are provided by Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire and Go Whippet. St Neots is served by the cross country X5 service that runs between Cambridge and Oxford.
St Neots Museum, housed in the town's Victorian Police Station and Magistrates Court, has local history collections covering the town's rich past including a display about James Toller, the Eynesbury Giant, a resident from the 18th century who measured over 8 ft in height. There is also a gallery with temporary exhibitions by local creatives including fine art, ceramics, sculpture and illustration.
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St Neots Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Tucked away in the South Cambridgeshire countryside, St Neots Club Site is a firm favourite with those who enjoy a quiet location with plenty of amenities on the doorstep. Situated on the banks of the Great Ouse, it’s perfect for wildlife and fishing enthusiasts, while St Neots itself is a charming market town less than a mile from site. Enjoy a walk into the town and visit St Neots Museum to learn its medieval history, before picking up a Town Trail map and ticking off local landmarks including the 15th century St Mary’s Church and the Lost Priory of St Neots. If you have the kids in tow, take them to Riverside Park where you can ride on the Riverside Miniature Railway or enjoy numerous activities including walking, cycling, boating, fishing, field sports and picnics. The park includes children’s playgrounds and marked cycle and footpaths, and there is a cafe on-site too. Further afield, the university town of Cambridge is just 10 miles from the Club Site and offers a superb day out for all the family.
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Places to see in ( St Neots - UK )
Places to see in ( St Neots - UK )
St Neots is a town and civil parish in the non metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, England, within the historic county of Huntingdonshire, next to the Bedfordshire county border. St Neots lies on the banks of the River Great Ouse in the Huntingdonshire District, 15 miles (24 km) west of Cambridge and 49 miles (79 km) north of central London.
St Neots is the largest town in Cambridgeshire with a population of approximately 40,000 in 2014. The town is named after the Cornish monk Saint Neot, whose bones were subject to translation from the hamlet of St Neot on Bodmin Moor on consecration of the Priory of St Neots c. 980.
Pilgrimage to St Neots brought prosperity for the town, and it was granted a market charter in 1130. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the town enjoyed further prosperity through corn milling, brewing, stagecoach traffic and railways. After the Second World War, the town and its industry grew rapidly as London councils paid for new housing to be built in the town to rehouse families from London. The first London overspill housing was completed in the early 1960s.
St Neots lies in the valley of the River Great Ouse, partly on the flood plain and partly on slightly higher ground a little further from the water. The Great Ouse is a mature river, once wide and shallow but now controlled by weirs and sluices and usually constrained in a well-defined channel. St Neots developed at the site of a ford where overland routes converged. This was replaced by a medieval bridge, and today there are two further crossings just outside the town, one to the north and another to the south.
St Neots is approximately 49 miles north of London. It is close to the south-western boundary of Huntingdonshire District, and both the city of Cambridge and the county town of Bedford are nearby. St Neots railway station is located on the East Coast Main Line and provides half-hourly trains south to London (London King's Cross) and north to Peterborough. Journey times to London King's Cross typically range from 36 minutes to one hour. The station is managed and served by Great Northern.
St Neots is bypassed by the A1 which links the town by road with London to the south and Peterborough to the north, while the nearby A14 provides access to the Midlands and East Anglia. Regular local buses are provided by Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire and Go Whippet. St Neots is served by the cross country X5 service that runs between Cambridge and Oxford.
St Neots Museum, housed in the town's Victorian Police Station and Magistrates Court, has local history collections covering the town's rich past including a display about James Toller, the Eynesbury Giant, a resident from the 18th century who measured over 8 ft in height. There is also a gallery with temporary exhibitions by local creatives including fine art, ceramics, sculpture and illustration.
( St Neots - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of St Neots . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in St Neots - UK
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Eaton Socon St Mary's Church Fire of 1930 - St Neots Through Time
St Neots Through Time is a new book by Amberley publishing which will be available in April 2014. It shows views of St Neots taken from old postcards, with the current view of the same location with captions describing the scene.
About the Author
Jonanthan Mountfort is a local author with a huge range of interests and a deep attachment to St Neots. Jon's father founded the St Neots Technical College, his mother was a member of St Neots Players and he has lived in the town his entire life. Jon has previously published books on the history of Scalextric, British steam engines, a tour guide to the British Isles, two children's books and a book of sonnets. Jon also used to write guides to computers and electronics and continues to write manuals for engineering and computer companies. This is his first book for Amberley Publishing. The modern views were taken by photographer Meredith Hadfield who has lived in the town for more than 20 years.
Market Square (Paine & Co.) St.Neots Through Time
St Neots Through Time is a new book by Amberley publishing which will be available in April 2014. It shows views of St Neots taken from old postcards, with the current view of the same location with captions describing the scene.
St Neots used to be in the county of Huntingdonshire, but it is now in Cambridgeshire. If you ask locals what St Neots is famous for, they will probably give you one of the following answers: that at one time it had the most public houses per capita in the British Isles; or that it is called St Neots because some monks went to St Neot in Cornwall in 974, stole the saint s bones, and carried them 300 miles away to the banks of the River Great Ouse, thus founding the Priory of St Neots. There are actually four separate parts to what now comes under the heading of St Neots . Eynesbury is the oldest; Eaton Ford is just across the river to the west; and further on from there is Eaton Socon, on the old Great North Road. Beautifully illustrated with a selection of fascinating photographs, St Neots Through Time takes the reader on a journey through the development of this town and its surroundings.
About the Authors
Jonanthan Mountfort is a local author with a huge range of interests and a deep attachment to St Neots. Jon's father founded the St Neots Technical College, his mother was a member of St Neots Players and he has lived in the town his entire life. Jon has previously published books on the history of Scalextric, British steam engines, a tour guide to the British Isles, two children's books and a book of sonnets. Jon also used to write guides to computers and electronics and continues to write manuals for engineering and computer companies. This is his first book for Amberley Publishing. The modern views were taken by photographer Meredith Hadfield who has lived in the town for more than 20 years.
Berkley Street - St Neots Through Time
St Neots Through Time is a new book by Amberley publishing which will be available in April 2014. It shows views of St Neots taken from old postcards, with the current view of the same location with captions describing the scene.
St Neots used to be in the county of Huntingdonshire, but it is now in Cambridgeshire. If you ask locals what St Neots is famous for, they will probably give you one of the following answers: that at one time it had the most public houses per capita in the British Isles; or that it is called St Neots because some monks went to St Neot in Cornwall in 974, stole the saint s bones, and carried them 300 miles away to the banks of the River Great Ouse, thus founding the Priory of St Neots. There are actually four separate parts to what now comes under the heading of St Neots . Eynesbury is the oldest; Eaton Ford is just across the river to the west; and further on from there is Eaton Socon, on the old Great North Road. Beautifully illustrated with a selection of fascinating photographs, St Neots Through Time takes the reader on a journey through the development of this town and its surroundings.
About the Authors
Jonanthan Mountfort is a local author with a huge range of interests and a deep attachment to St Neots. Jon's father founded the St Neots Technical College, his mother was a member of St Neots Players and he has lived in the town his entire life. Jon has previously published books on the history of Scalextric, British steam engines, a tour guide to the British Isles, two children's books and a book of sonnets. Jon also used to write guides to computers and electronics and continues to write manuals for engineering and computer companies. This is his first book for Amberley Publishing. The modern views were taken by photographer Meredith Hadfield who has lived in the town for more than 20 years.
Riding the Great North Road at Eaton Socon on a Royal Enfield Classic 500
I’m on my single cylinder Royal Enfield motorcycle on the Great North Road at Eaton Socon, near St Neots in Cambridgeshire.
This old and historic road at this point was by-passed by the A1 in nineteen seventy one. Eaton Socon’s coaching inns once provided food, lodgings and a change of horses to travellers on the stage coaches between London and York, and similar hospitality, minus the horses of course, was offered to cyclists and motorists with the revival of road transport at the end of the nineteenth century.
I started off just next to the The Crown, an old coaching inn, and I’m sorry, I should have turned to get it into camera shot.
Coming up on the left is a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, the KFC sign, coming up on the left, and here once stood another coaching inn, The Bell.
This road, or this stretch of road, was once the Biggleswade to Alconbury Turnpike, founded in seventeen twenty five, and that particular turnpike trust was one of the earliest turnpikes to be established. Later, this stretch of road, along with the rest of the Great North Road, was re-designated as the A1, that happened in the nineteen twenties, marking it as the foremost road of the realm.
There’s a timber-framed building coming up on the left, a white painted one, and I’ve seen in a nineteen thirty nine film that it once had Tea House as a sign on its wall at the side. I’d like to bet that was once an old coaching inn in bygone times.
And here on the left is a famous old coaching inn called, Ye Olde White Horse.
This inn has provided hospitality to passers-by since the twelve hundreds, which is mind-boggling, and says so much about the historical importance of this road.
And what a wonderful photograph this is. It was taken in the late eighteen hundreds or early nineteen hundreds, looking back at the route I’ve just followed.
I’m interested in what I’ve coined elsewhere as the transition era, when these roads and inns fell into decline due to the rise of the steam railway network, and when they began to revive again, prompted by the return of traffic to the roads, firstly in the form of cyclists, then as motorists.
This road on the photograph is not yet tarmacked, and harks back still to the turnpike era that ended only fifteen years before.
And I’ve blown up part of the photograph to see the signs for “Vacuum Motor Car Oils”, “Shell Motor Spirit” and “Pratt’s Spirit” hung from the hotel wall. Presumably these were sold from cans, there being no pumps to be seen.
The White Horse promotion to cyclists and motorists captures the era in which the roads were beginning to recover from the steam era doldrums.
And cyclists come before motorists in this promotion, suggesting that the greater volume of business came from the pedalling travellers. This must place the photograph very early in the motoring era, sometime around nineteen hundred.
Here are a couple of photos from the nineteen twenties. And you’ll see in the next one an Esso petrol pump to the right of the inn. Its hard to tell whether the road is tarmacked or not, I think possibly not.
And in this roadside scene from the nineteen sixties, everything becomes more recognisably modern. This shot was taken not long before the A1 eventually by-passed the old inn back in nineteen seventy one. Imagine, even in the nineteen sixties, the amount of heavy traffic thundering through here. Whilst no longer selling petrol, the old inn remained to provide motorists with rest, food and accommodation.
And this old inn is still serving ale and food to this day, but its role of providing hospitality to passers-by on the busy A1 is a distant memory.
So its now back to riding the rest of this historic stretch of road.
And coming up, the white painted building on the left is the former Wheatsheaf, public house on the roadside, now a residential property.
The Old Sun comes up next, just after the fence on the left, the old white-painted building, an old coaching inn.
And on the right, again another white painted building, the Waggon and Horses, its name redolent of the trade it served in days gone by.
What an evocative stretch of old road this is. What stories it could tell about the historical journeys undertaken along its length. The stage coach era, the first cyclists and early motoring era, all are evoked by this stretch of the Great North Road, the old A1.
So many inns to serve the travellers, many no doubt lost, and some perhaps I’ve overlooked.
And my old-style single cylinder motorcycle is just suited to this sort of road. Indeed it was probably designed for roads like this, back in the last century.
And there to the left, to end my ride along this ancient highway, is yet another roadside inn, the George and Dragon.
And there’s a fork in the road ahead, and at that point I’m leaving the Great North Road to turn right towards the bridge across the River Great Ouse at St. Neots, and then on to Cambridge.
For now I’m done.
Videoed on GoPro 8
© John Dunn.
St Neots from the TOP - Eynesbury / Drone Video
St Neots in Cambridgeshire UK
Market Square Flood - 1931 - St.Neots
Skaters on the Ouse 1891 - St Neots Through Time
St Neots Through Time is a new book by Amberley publishing which will be available in April 2014. It shows views of St Neots taken from old postcards, with the current view of the same location with captions describing the scene.
About the Authors
Jonanthan Mountfort is a local author with a huge range of interests and a deep attachment to St Neots. Jon's father founded the St Neots Technical College, his mother was a member of St Neots Players and he has lived in the town his entire life. Jon has previously published books on the history of Scalextric, British steam engines, a tour guide to the British Isles, two children's books and a book of sonnets. Jon also used to write guides to computers and electronics and continues to write manuals for engineering and computer companies. This is his first book for Amberley Publishing. The modern views were taken by photographer Meredith Hadfield who has lived in the town for more than 20 years.
St Neots- A video project
A little video project about the town of St Neots in Cambridgeshire
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B17G '568' Ditching - Formerly 'Little Davey II' - #Ramsholt, Suffolk, 1945 - #snippets
This is the separated segment of the B17G ' 568' previously named 'Little Davey II' story, which ditched in the River Deben, shortly after leaving Debach, coupled with the thoughts and memories of George Collins.
George, now 92, was 14 at the time but remembers the events well.
It must be noted that the name was removed from aircraft in December 1944 at the request of original Pilot, Lt Carroll Bracy, when he completed his tour on 30th November 1944 and the Aircraft referred to as 568 by subsequent crews from this time, but it has been widely, and incorrectly, remembered as 'Little Davey II,' often in articles through the years.
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Please note that this video is not monetised and that any monetisation that may be generated in future, will be donated, in full, to the 493rd (H) BG museum trustees at Debach Airfield.
We are eternally grateful for those that served and came to the aid of our Nation, and for those ties that, nearly 80 years later, are still so strong.
Additional thanks must go to those that corrected our initial upload, which we are extremely happy to re-edit and correct.
Special thanks to D Jelley for allowing me access to information that have allowed me to correct the initial release.
Ivel River St Neots Cambridgeshire
Ivel River is one of the most popular attractions in St Neots Cambridgeshire. You may know the area well of you may still be weighing up your options and pros and cons of the various locals. If you need any assistance then please don’t hesitate to ask
Maidscross hill, Lakenheath.
Maidscross hill, Lakenheath.