14th November 2025 The Heritage Society continues to work to develop our understanding of the rural, social and military heritage of Old Longstanton and Oakington Airfield. Earlier this week I had the pleasure to be contacted by an author. I won’t go into full details now but hopefully we can put together an article for […]
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LDHS Newsletter 2024
The 2024 newsletter is now available to view on the Newsletters and Annual Reports page
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Summer Quiz 2024
We would love you to try our summer quiz. Answers will be published on this website at the end of summer 2024. Summer Quiz
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British Library accessions LDHS material
LDHS is pleased to announce that the British Library has accessioned all the material which Hilary Stroude recently sent to them. This material included research booklets which Hilary and her researcher produced c 2005 onwards. It also included a large selection of the Longstanton Life magazines that related particularly to Northstowe. A full set of […]
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Northstowe Arts Sculpture Project for the Heritage Annex
LDHS is delighted to have been asked to support the Northstowe Arts Sculpture Project for the Heritage Annex. More details can be found at https://www.ldhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/202301_Update_NN.pdf
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2022 Newsletter and AGM
The LDHS 2022 Newsletter is now available and can be found at 2022 Newsletter. The AGM will take place on 15th September and full details can be found on our talks page. We hope to see you at the AGM and afterwards for our talk about the 1947 floods.
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Northstowe Heritage Guide
LDHS has produced a guide to Northstowe history which covers the history and heritage of Northstowe and the neighbouring villages of Longstanton, Oakington and Westwick. This guide is now available on the Northstowe website
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LDHS Talks – please give us your views
LDHS Talks – currently on hold Due to the current concerns regarding COVID-19 (Coronavirus) LDHS has decided to postpone our talks until it is safe to hold them again. We would appreciate your feedback regarding when to restart our talks, this short survey should only take a couple of minutes to complete – please give […]
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Spring Talks – postponed
Due to the current uncertainty regarding COVID-19 (Coronavirus) LDHS has decided to postpone the remaining Spring talks. Please visit the LDHS Talks page which will be updated once the situation becomes clearer.
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Last talk of the Autumn Season – Digging up a Spitfire.
The last talk of the Autumn 2019 season will take place at 7.30 PM on Friday 1st October in the Village Institute. This is a really interesting talk which combines archaeology with the story of a Spitfire. For more details please see Autumn Talks – Digging Up A Spitfire
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Longstanton and District
District District is defined as consisting of Northstowe and the village of Oakington and Westwick. It can also include the area associated with the South West Fen Edge and our local tracks and by-ways, so the interactions between local communities can be properly understood..
