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July 1941: "We looked at Sir Roger (a very fine effigy of a crusader who came back) and Sir Roger looked at HO . . . I saw by HO's look that some idea of a common connection had sprung to his mind . . . I watched one 'boisterous knight' looking thoughtfully at another one." Mayfield said that a principal topic of conversation in quiet moments for Oxlin and for other young pilots as well was, "What happens when you die? Is it wrong to be frightened of dying? How should you live if you are twenty and will be dead by the end of the summer?" Oxlin was killed in action over France two weeks after visiting the church with Mayfield. Mayfield wrote, "I like to think of him standing beside Sir Roger."
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Carl Warner (editor), Life and Death in the Battle of Britain (London: Imperial War Museum, 2018), 154 and 161. Mayfield, an Anglican priest, was the chaplain at Duxford during the Battle of Britain in 1940, and most of 1941. He and a young pilot officer, Harold Oxlin ("HO"), visited the church on 8
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inlaid with garnets on her breast. The jewelled gold cross is very unusual, and can only have belonged to a member of a rich aristocratic family. It is thought that the grave must have been associated with a hitherto unknown Anglo-Saxon settlement near the site, perhaps that of a monastic community.
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of 1086 records a community of 33 peasants. The population had risen to 100 by the late 13th century. The village remained sizeable throughout the Middle Ages and by 1801 there were 494 residents. By the time the parish was dissolved there were about 1,200 inhabitants. Until the 20th century
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era until the 20th century. In 1912 all of the land north of Long Road was transferred to Cambridge, and on 1 April 1934 most of the remaining land, including all of the village, was also given over to Cambridge. Only 382 acres (155 ha), almost uninhabited, were transferred to
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Cambridge City Council's 2006 Local Plan provided for the release of an extensive area of Green Belt land around Trumpington for new housing and associated community facilities. Major new developments are being constructed on the
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Trumpington is represented by three city councillors on Cambridge City Council, three district councillors on South Cambridgeshire District Council and three councillors on Cambridge County Council.
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The Cambridge Local Plan 2006 took land around the village out of the green belt and paved the way for an urban extension due for completion in 2023. A map of the enlarge village is available in
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for a young woman aged about 16 years old, in a field on the outskirts of the village. The occupant of the grave had been buried on a wooden bed, and had an ornate gold
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knight bearing the date 1289; it is said to be the second oldest brass in England. The brass of Sir Roger as seen through the thoughtful eyes of a young
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was created, which will include some of the most southerly part of the new Trumpington Meadows development. It comprises the land formerly in the
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is mentioned in it. The location of the mill is believed to be Old Mill Holt on the river to the southwest of the village.
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ford by the road to Grantchester, and a Roman cemetery. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery has also been found nearby at Dam Hill.
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pilot who visited the church in 1941 is movingly described by Squadron Leader Guy Mayfield, then chaplain of
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In 1314, the lord of the manor, Giles of Trumpington, was given permission to hold a three-day fair on the
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In 2012 archaeologists working on the Trumpington Meadows site discovered a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon
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that lies east of the River Cam between the current Cambridge city council boundary and the M11.
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several times in the 19th century, notably in 1858 and 1876–77 under the direction of the
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sites to the south and east of the village, and on Trumpington Meadows to the southwest.
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of the City of Cambridge and a ward of South Cambridgeshire District Council. The
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Trumpington was an agricultural village with cattle and sheep as well as crops.
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hung a rubbing of the brass in 'pride of place' in his parents' Oxford home.
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was rebuilt late in the 13th century. The rest of the church, including the
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Trumpington's association with agriculture was extended in 1955, when the
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This article is about the village in England. For other uses, see
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Anstey Hall is a Grade I listed, former country house built
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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
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claimed eight more local men; their names were added by
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Young Lawrence: a Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man
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within its own parkland. Once owned by writer and poet
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Parish Church of St Mary & St Michael, Trumpington
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parish. In 1931 the parish had a population of 1183.
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Community governance review for Haslingfield Parish
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