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Newnham Walls (Newnham, Cambridge) Church Rate Walk/Newnham Way/Summerfield The Cambridge White, capped, brick walls.
Newnham Walls (Newnham, Cambridge)
Church Rate Walk/Newnham Way/Summerfield The Cambridge White, capped, brick walls.
The PDF of an article exploring some old walls in the Old Newnham area. This article is available to read as a blog post within the Cambridgeshire section of this website or can be downloaded for free, in full, here for you to own.
"There are several walls of the type above in this area. I have initially identified what seems to be 3 separate sections1. They are provisionally dated to the latter part of the 19th century and are constructed from Cambridge White bricks, (made near Ely or perhaps the Newmarket Road brickworks in Cambridge?) They are capped with an angled brick to allow rainwater runoff and finished with an oval capping brick. Given the similarity between these walls in this area, it would be nice to discover what they were bounding and from what date. How, if at all are they connected to one another?"
Michelle Bullivant 2023