Howes, Cambridgeshire

Howes was a hamlet located on Huntingdon Road between Girton and Cambridge. It was known to have been in existence by 1219 and it began to decline in the mid-fifteenth century[1] with there being no record of it after 1600.[2] The word "howe" means barrow, and the hamlet's name may have been derived from several Romano-British burial mounds in the area, one of which was uncovered during construction of the Huntingdon Road turnpike in 1745.[1]

References
  1. Craig Cessford (2014), North West Cambridge Archaeology - University of Cambridge: 2013–14 Excavations, Site IX (NWC Report No. 6) (PDF), Cambridge Archaeological Unit
  2. A P M Wright; C P Lewis (eds.). ""Girton: Introduction"". A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds. pp. 115–118.

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