Miscellaneous:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.
"GOGMAGOG-HILLS, (Cambridgeshire) near Balsham and Newmarket, has a seat of Earl Godolphin,
whither he often comes,
especially in the hunting season, from whence there is a prospect of a rich pleasant
vale to the W. and of Cambridge
itself, at a greater distance. On the top of these hills there seems to have been
anciently some camp or fortification, in
the area of which, K. James II. had a spacious stable built for his running-horses."
- "SALSTON, (Cambridgeshire) in a vale near Gogmagog-hills, came, by marriage of Sir
John Nevill to the marquis of
Montacute's daughter, to the Huddlestons."
- "WANDLESBURY, (Cambridgeshire) near Gogmagog-Hills, was a camp of the Vandals, after
they had ruined some parts of Britain,
and cruelly destroyed the christians."
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2011]
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