The Trumpington Inclosure Act and Award: Digital Maps

 

Three maps are currently available, showing different stages of the enclosure process.  You can zoom in on each of them, and with the first two you can click on various features to find out more information.

We recommend that you view each of these maps using the whole screen of your monitor. That way you should be able to see the legend in the top right hand corner which explains the various “layers” in the map.

You can “pan” across the map by clicking and dragging it.

You can “zoom” in or out using either the +/- buttons in the top left hand corner or by using the scroll button on a mouse.

1. Trumpington before enclosure.

This shows the pattern of open fields and common land existing in 1801, together with the “old inclosures” – land which had already been taken into private ownership, mainly within the village centred on Church Lane, High Street and the now vanished Dagling End (opposite the parish church).

The information here comes from the map included in the Inclosure Award itself. Clicking twice on one of the numbered “old inclosures” will take you to a list of those inclosures (from the Award), and you can then click again to find out about the owner of that property.

2.  Trumpington after enclosure.

The open fields, fen and common land have disappeared.  In their place are a series of “new allotments” to various landowners.

This information also comes from the map included in the Award. The “old inclosures” (numbered in black) behave as in the “before enclosure” map. The “new allotments”, all outlined and numbered in red, when clicked twice will take you to a page listing these new allotments; from there you can click again to find further details.

3.  The Pemberton land holdings in 1804.

Francis Charles James Pemberton was by far the biggest landowner in the parish, and this map shows the detail of what he owned, as well as what he tenanted from Trinity College.

The original map is in the Cambridgeshire Archives and the “Particular”, that lists all the different parcels of land, is in the Pemberton archives at Trumpington Hall.

We are grateful to Antony Pemberton for permission to use that information here.

 

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