Horseheath, Cambridgeshire

Description
Horseheath, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands near the boundaries with Essex and Suffolk, on the Cambridge old road, 3 miles NE from Bartlow station on the G.E.R., and 3 1/2 E by N from Linton. There is a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Linton. The parish includes also the hamlet of Horse-heath Green. Acreage, 1922; population, 507. The manor, with Horseheath Lodge, a mansion of white brick in the Elizabethan style, belongs to the Batson family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net. value, £249 with residence. Patrons, the Governors of the Charterhouse, London. The church is an ancient building of flint and rabble in the Perpendicular style of the 14th and 15th centuries; consists of nave and chancel, with N and S porches, and a tower; and contains a 14th century brass of Sir John d'Argentine; it was restored in 1891. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and some small charities.