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Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History Martin Garrett - 2004 -- Page viii 1902669797 "Its propensity to flood has threaded through Cambridge from the pubs in Grantchester to the Ditton Plough, a broad green ribbon of flood plain โ€” Grantchester Meadows, The Iammas Land, the Backs, Jesus Green,
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Chapel two miles away. It was said that a fiddler who offered to follow the passage set off playing his fiddle; the music became fainter and fainter, until it was heard no more and the fiddler was never seen or heard of again. This story is told of many supposed tunnels. On a 17th-century map of
1205: 587:. In 1897, a group of Cambridge students persuaded the owner of Orchard House to serve them tea in its apple orchard, and this became a regular practice. Lodgers at Orchard House included the 966:(26 December), Grantchester holds an inter-village barrel race which is around 40 minutes long and ends with a hog roast at the Rupert Brooke pub. This tradition dates back to the 1960s. 1336: 236: 1367: 1144: 356: 867: 711: 209: 720: 1314: 476: 1468: 1621: 162: 318: 1626: 349: 1127: 895: 644: 1545: 1616: 398: 344: 1344: 1392: 927: 1528: 871: 361: 115: 1365: 1152: 1415: 1387: 390: 380: 1579:"Rupert Brooke's Grantchester" : the full text of the famous poem, plus a commentary and photographs by two local residents 1292: 823: 306: 272: 1180: 1040: 1028: 810: 607: 53: 1100: 731:
is mid-fourteenth century and the tower is late-fourteenth or early fifteenth century. The porch is sixteenth century. The
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name was Grantabrycge. The confusion arises from the lower stretches of the Granta having been renamed
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winners, most of these presumably being current or retired academics from the nearby
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shown in the UK from autumn 2014 and filmed on location in Grantchester.
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The church is surrounded by a graveyard, where the burials include:
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An underground passage is said to run from the Old Manor house to
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Grantchester is said to have the world's highest concentration of
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Grantchester, one of the fields is called Fiddler's Close.
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was extensively restored in 1876โ€“1877. The church is a
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Village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England
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