Heydon (South Cambridgeshire) 

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Historical notes about the Parish of Heydon (South Cambridgeshire)

High in the chalk hills stand Heydon's thatched cottages, with a pond for the ducks, and a medieval church hiding behind the trees, one tree a chestnut stretching 18 yards from the gate, nearly to the church door.

A key a foot long opens for us the ancient door of the 15^th century church at Heydon, which still has its old font, and has a patchwork of old glass in of the windows. The glass in the modern chancel makes a fine gallery of colour, one dramatic scene showing Peter walking away as the cock crows. The east wall is decorative with alabaster arcading and gold mosaic, roses in the spandrels, and vines trailing under the arches. A memorial to one of the daughters recalls the Soame family who lived here 300 years ago, and whose right it was to hold the towel at the king’s coronation. The lord of this manor attended with his towel at the coronation of George the Fourth.

There are traces of a defensive dyke which extended three miles to Fowelmere, and a track way from that misty time still leads to Royston. It is called the Green Road, and was trodden by men before the Romans came to England, and dropped their coins and pottery here.

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