Description
Castle-Camps, a parish in Cambridgeshire, on the verge of the county, 3 miles SE from Bartlow station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Haverhill. Acreage, 3184; population, 859. The manor was given at the Conquest to Aubrey de Vere. The De Veres made over the property to the Skinner family, one of whom was Lord Mayor of London, and it changed hands again before it came to Thomas Sutton about 1603. It was given by him to the Charter House, London. A castle of the De Veres stood on it, and appears to have been magnificent, but is now represented by only a deep moat round a farmhouse on its site. Large entrenchments of the East Angles and the Danes were in the parish, and these, with the castle, gave rise to the name of Castle-Camps. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £424 with residence. Patron, the Charter-House of London. The church is a structure of flint and rubble in the Perpendicular style. It was restored in 1883. There is also a Congregational chapel. In 1885 the Cambridgeshire portion of Helions Bumpsted parish was amalgamated with this parish. Camps-End is a hamlet 1/2 a mile W of the church.