The village of Grantchester is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as Grantesete and Grauntsethe.[1] Before, it is also mentioned briefly in book IV, chapter 19 of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. John de Grauntsete, a lawyer who had a successful career as a judge in Ireland, was born in Grantchester, c. 1270, and took his surname from his birthplace. The present name derives from the common Old Englishsuffix-ceaster (variously developed as "-cester", "-caster", and -"chester"), used in names of forts or fortified cities throughout England.
Grantchester is said to have the world's highest concentration of Nobel Prize winners, most of these presumably being current or retired academics from the nearby University of Cambridge.[4] Students and tourists often travel from Cambridge by punt to picnic in the meadows or take tea at The Orchard. 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.[5] Lodgers at Orchard House included the Edwardian poetRupert Brooke, who later moved next door to the Old Vicarage. In 1912, while in Berlin, he wrote a poem of homesickness entitled "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester". The house is currently the home of the Cambridge scientist Mary Archer and her husband, Jeffrey Archer.[5] Grantchester has been the home since 1969 of the sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld OBE.[6]
The oldest parts of the Church of St Andrew and St Mary (Church of England) date from the twelfth century. The chancel is mid-fourteenth century and the tower is late-fourteenth or early fifteenth century. The porch is sixteenth century. The nave was extensively restored in 1876–1877. The church is a Grade II* listed building.[14] Rachel Rosborough became vicar in 2017.[15]
Graveyard
The church is surrounded by a graveyard, where the burials include:[16]
Every year on Boxing Day (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.[18]
Legends
An underground passage is said to run from the Old Manor house to King's College 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.[19] This story is told of many supposed tunnels. On a 17th-century map of Grantchester, one of the fields is called Fiddler's Close.[20]
Gallery
The Green Man
Grantchester Meadows
Manor Farmhouse
Grantchester Meadows sign
Grantchester Village Hall
References
^"Open Domesday: Grantchester". Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^Nennius (attrib.). Theodor Mommsen (ed.). Historia Brittonum, VI. Composed after AD 830. (in Latin) Hosted at Latin Wikisource.
^Ford, David Nash. "The 28 Cities of Britain 15 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine" at Britannia. 2000.
^. Cambridge News. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
^ abcKelly, Tony (10 August 1997). "Yes Rupert, there's still honey for tea..." The Independent. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
^Wright, Karen (9 June 2012). "Helaine Blumenfeld: 'Art is a commitment to risk, a reflection of life – nothing stays the same'". The Independent. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
^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 — Grantchester Meadows, The Iammas Land, the Backs, Jesus Green, Midsummer Common, ... "
^Reynolds, Stanley (6 June 2013). "Tom Sharpe obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
^Jordison, Sam (9 July 2009). "Going swimming with Roger Deakin". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
^"Byron's Pool". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
^"Map of Byron's Pool". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
^. Cambridge News. 26 August 2013. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
^Elliott, Chris (20 April 2017). "The new vicar of Grantchester is a woman - and she won't be trying to solve crimes". Cambridge News. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
^"Interesting People" (PDF). Grantchester Church. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
^"GRANTCHESTER (SS. ANDREW AND MARY) CHURCHYARD". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^"Where to go bonkers on Boxing Day". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
^Ash, Russell (1973). Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain. Reader's Digest Association Limited. p. 235. ISBN9780340165973.
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This article is about the village in Cambridgeshire England For the Rupert Brooke poem see The Old Vicarage Grantchester For the necktie knot see Grantchester knot For The TV series see Grantchester TV series This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Grantchester news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message Grantchester is a village and civil parish on the River Cam or Granta in South Cambridgeshire England It lies about two miles 3 km south of Cambridge GrantchesterThe banks of the River Cam at Grantchester May 2008 GrantchesterLocation within CambridgeshirePopulation540 2011 Census OS grid referenceTL432555DistrictSouth CambridgeshireShire countyCambridgeshireRegionEastCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townCAMBRIDGEPostcode districtCB3Dialling code01223PoliceCambridgeshireFireCambridgeshireAmbulanceEast of EnglandList of places UK England Cambridgeshire 52 10 44 N 0 05 42 E 52 179 N 0 095 E 52 179 0 095 Coordinates 52 10 44 N 0 05 42 E 52 179 N 0 095 E 52 179 0 095 Contents 1 Name 2 Overview 3 In popular culture 4 Grantchester Church 4 1 Graveyard 5 Barrel race 6 Legends 7 Gallery 8 References 9 External linksName EditThe village of Grantchester is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as Grantesete and Grauntsethe 1 Before it is also mentioned briefly in book IV chapter 19 of Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English People John de Grauntsete a lawyer who had a successful career as a judge in Ireland was born in Grantchester c 1270 and took his surname from his birthplace The present name derives from the common Old English suffix ceaster variously developed as cester caster and chester used in names of forts or fortified cities throughout England Grantchester is sometimes identified as the Cair Grauth 2 Fort Granta listed in the History of the Britons among the 28 cities of Britain 3 but the Roman Duroliponte and subsequent major British and Saxon settlements in the area were at Castle Hill in Cambridge whose Old English name was Grantabrycge The confusion arises from the lower stretches of the Granta having been renamed the Cam after the city Overview EditGrantchester is said to have the world s highest concentration of Nobel Prize winners most of these presumably being current or retired academics from the nearby University of Cambridge 4 Students and tourists often travel from Cambridge by punt to picnic in the meadows or take tea at The Orchard 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 5 Lodgers at Orchard House included the Edwardian poet Rupert Brooke who later moved next door to the Old Vicarage In 1912 while in Berlin he wrote a poem of homesickness entitled The Old Vicarage Grantchester The house is currently the home of the Cambridge scientist Mary Archer and her husband Jeffrey Archer 5 Grantchester has been the home since 1969 of the sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld OBE 6 The footpath to Cambridge that runs beside Grantchester Meadows 7 is nicknamed the Grantchester Grind 5 Grantchester Grind is the title of a 1995 comic novel written by Tom Sharpe 8 Further upstream is Byron s Pool named after Lord Byron who is said by Brooke at least to have swum there 9 The pool is now below a modern weir where the Bourn Brook flows into the River Cam Byron s Pool is a Local Nature Reserve 10 11 In popular culture EditGrantchester is the subject of Grantchester Meadows composed and performed by Roger Waters a song by Pink Floyd with the village being home to band member David Gilmour 12 A few years later David Gilmour also wrote a song about Grantchester Meadows called Fat Old Sun The village is also the setting for James Runcie s sleuth novels The Grantchester Mysteries now adapted as an ITV drama titled Grantchester shown in the UK from autumn 2014 13 and filmed on location in Grantchester Grantchester Church Edit St Mary and St Andrew Church The oldest parts of the Church of St Andrew and St Mary Church of England date from the twelfth century The chancel is mid fourteenth century and the tower is late fourteenth or early fifteenth century The porch is sixteenth century The nave was extensively restored in 1876 1877 The church is a Grade II listed building 14 Rachel Rosborough became vicar in 2017 15 Graveyard Edit The church is surrounded by a graveyard where the burials include 16 Constantine Walter Benson 1909 1982 ornithologist and author Francis Burkitt 1864 1935 theologian Anne Clough 1820 1892 the first principal of Newnham College Cambridge Dermot Freyer 1883 1970 Irish author and political activist Irving B Fritz de 1927 1996 physiologist and endocrinologist Sir James Gray 1891 1975 zoologist Dame Elizabeth Hill 1900 1996 academic linguist Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings 1913 2004 President of the International Court of Justice Frank Kingdon Ward 1885 1958 botanist and explorer Sir Desmond Lee 1908 1993 classical scholar headmaster of Clifton College and Winchester College President of Hughes Hall Cambridge Grantchester Graveyard J Rawson Lumby 1831 1895 theologian Arthur Henry Mann 1850 1929 organist and composer of hymn tunes Michael McCrum 1924 2005 Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Master of Corpus Christi College Cambridge and Headmaster of Tonbridge School and Eton College Jean Purdy 1945 1985 embryologist and co founder of the Bourn Hall Clinic with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards G W Shaw 1928 2006 biologist and expert on academic dress Robert Stevenson 1905 1986 film writer and director Charles Swainson 1820 1887 theologian David J Thouless 1934 2019 physicist Robert H Thouless 1894 1984 psychologist and parapsychologistIt also contains the Commonwealth war graves of three British Army soldiers of the First World War and an airman of the Second World War 17 Barrel race Edit A Grantchester barrel race in 2007 Every year on Boxing Day 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 18 Legends EditAn underground passage is said to run from the Old Manor house to King s College 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 19 This story is told of many supposed tunnels On a 17th century map of Grantchester one of the fields is called Fiddler s Close 20 Gallery Edit The Green Man Grantchester Meadows Manor Farmhouse Grantchester Meadows sign Grantchester Village HallReferences Edit Open Domesday Grantchester Retrieved 28 February 2023 Nennius attrib Theodor Mommsen ed Historia Brittonum VI Composed after AD 830 in Latin Hosted at Latin Wikisource Ford David Nash The 28 Cities of Britain Archived 15 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine at Britannia 2000 Nine things you didn t know about Grantchester Cambridge News 13 October 2014 Archived from the original on 13 September 2015 Retrieved 20 December 2015 a b c Kelly Tony 10 August 1997 Yes Rupert there s still honey for tea The Independent Retrieved 20 December 2015 Wright Karen 9 June 2012 Helaine Blumenfeld Art is a commitment to risk a reflection of life nothing stays the same The Independent Retrieved 20 December 2015 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 Grantchester Meadows The Iammas Land the Backs Jesus Green Midsummer Common Reynolds Stanley 6 June 2013 Tom Sharpe obituary The Guardian Retrieved 20 December 2015 Jordison Sam 9 July 2009 Going swimming with Roger Deakin The Guardian Retrieved 20 December 2015 Byron s Pool Local Nature Reserves Natural England Retrieved 4 August 2013 Map of Byron s Pool Local Nature Reserves Natural England Retrieved 4 August 2013 A Pink Floyd spotter s guide to Cambridge Cambridge News 26 August 2013 Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 Retrieved 20 December 2015 1 Archived 1 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine Historic England Church of St Mary and St Andrew 1309436 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 11 May 2018 Elliott Chris 20 April 2017 The new vicar of Grantchester is a woman and she won t be trying to solve crimes Cambridge News Retrieved 15 May 2021 Interesting People PDF Grantchester Church Retrieved 11 May 2018 GRANTCHESTER SS ANDREW AND MARY CHURCHYARD www cwgc org Retrieved 9 November 2020 Where to go bonkers on Boxing Day The Guardian Retrieved 3 November 2014 Ash Russell 1973 Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain Reader s Digest Association Limited p 235 ISBN 9780340165973 2 Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback MachineExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grantchester Grantchester village website Church website Grantchester Cricket Club Rupert Brooke s Grantchester the full text of the famous poem plus a commentary and photographs by two local residents The Orchard Colburn Ben Ynys Mon Mark Grantchester SS Andrew amp Mary Cambridgeshire Churches Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Grantchester amp oldid 1142181345, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
