The stunning Cambs village that once had 14 pubs for just 500 people 

Cambridgeshire has no curtailment of gorgeous towns and villages with a affluent history. The canton has archaeological finds and a abundance of architectural highlights from colourfully corrective thatched cottages to centuries-old estate houses.

Blessed with many pubs, cafés and tea apartment – and that’s alike after advertence the aces museums, alive windmills and rolling countryside.

It could also abruptness you to locate out which there is one baby village in Cambridgeshire, Stilton, which acclimated to have 14 pubs – they absolutely knew how to do them alternate then.

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Daniel Defoe in 1722 declared Stilton as “famous” for its cheese (and pubs). The Roman Ermine Street, which would become the Great North Road, was once abundantly basic to the development of the village.

By the backward mediaeval era, the village was once a famous announcement base and apprenticeship stop. At one actual intersection, in the 1500s/1600s there were 14 pubs for a citizenry of all over 500 people. That’s all over one pub for 35 people.

The capital inns of the aeon were the Bell Inn and the Angel Inn, both of which are still there today. The Bell Inn has been recorded back 1515 and was once rebuilt in 1642.

The Angel Inn, which goes alternate as far as the aboriginal 1600s’, was once rebuilt as an absorbing red brick home in the 1700s’. It accomplished actuality an inn, and was once abominably austere in 1923.

Great North Road

At the aiguille of the stagecoach age, from all over 1784 to the 1840s, there were forty two appointed commuter and mail coaches endlessly per day in Stilton and many clandestine carriages and post-chaises either travelling on the Great North Road or abutting with added routes.

From Alconbury, the Great North Road follows the band of Ermine Street north, by Stilton, and beyond the River Nene at Wansford. Inns on this area of the alley included the George at Stamford and the Bell Inn at Stilton, the original sellers of Stilton cheese.

‘Modern era’

Stilton’s crumbling role as a endlessly off point on the Great North Road accordingly led to a falling in choose for many pubs, and as a aftereffect the abridgement suffered.

One of the explanations it accomplished beneath travellers was once due to the arrival of the railway many mile to the east in the 19th century. The 2nd acumen was once the aperture of a 1.25-mile-long A1 bypass on July 21, 1958.

As a result, the Bell Inn bankrupt and the village as a accomplished absent many businesses. To try to renew hobby in the village, in Easter 1962 Tom McDonald of The Talbot and Malcolm Moyer of the Bell Inn organised the village’s first cheese-rolling chase alternating a advance abreast the column office.

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