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LDHS Spring Talks Season Starts Friday March 2
The LDHS Spring Talk season starts on Friday 2 March at 7.30pm. As usual everyone is welcome so please come along. More information to follow.
Goodbye Rural Longstanton And Our Water Too?
Work started out on phase 1 of Northstowe in 2015, with the first new residents moving into the new homes in May 2017. Now many house builders are out on site and already c 60 homes are occupied. Wonder why LDHS exists? For the simple reason that someone needed to record the social, rural and […]
Airfield Research Council Supports LDHS Heritage Plans For RAF Oakington
It was a pleasure to meet Jeff Hawley of the Airfield Research Group at the Conservation Officers Forum on Thursday 1 February. Not only did he and a colleague give an excellent talk but they were clearly interested and very supportive of the work LDHS is doing to protect and promote the heritage of RAF […]
Northstowe: Eco-town or Eco-Disaster?
The latest edition of the Longstanton Life poses this question as we look at photographs of the kingfisher pond that is located out on Northstowe phase 1 on what was the old golf course. The photographs below speak for themselves when you realise that the developers started their groundwork out on phase 1 in 2015. […]
Lynx Farewell Flight Honours The Former Site of RAF Oakington
So glad I was at home yesterday when the windows rattled and there was a tremendous noise. Luckily I went outside just as 4 Lynx helicopters flew over the Manor Farm paddocks here in Longstanton. Delighted to have witnessed their farewell flight as they came to fly over the site of RAF Oakington #respect The […]
CAS CONFERENCE – RECENT ARCHAEOLOGY IN OUR REGION
CAS Autumn Conference – Recent Archaeology in the Cambridgeshire Region Saturday November 18 2017. THIS CONFERENCE IS OPEN TO ALL (TICKETS £10 ON THE DOOR) You do not need to be a member of CAS or LDHS to go along Come along to the lectures and see the displays focusing on the two largest archaeological projects […]
Was East Anglia the epicentre of Leprosy in medieval England?
Interested in early medieval life across East Anglia? If so click through to this fascinating article. If you do read it you will note that a case of leprosy was found in a skeleton discovered at Great Chesterford which is not that far from Longstanton. This research gives us a clue as to the hardships […]
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