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Jun 5, 2024 · The advowson of the church of Great Gransden seems to have been granted with the manor (q.v.) to Robert, Earl of Gloucester. His son, Earl William (1147–1183), granted it to the Abbey of St. Augustine, Bristol. In 1295, the advowson was recovered by exchange by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester.
The continuing connection between the village and Clare College, Cambridge appears to date back to 1346, when the advowson for Great Gransden church was part of the original endowment of the college. Great Gransden boasts the oldest post mill in England.
Jun 16, 2024 · Little Gransden developed as an offshoot of the larger settlement of Great Gransden (Hunts.) to the north. The two are separated by the low-lying ground where the Gransden and Home Dole brooks meet, across which the church and the manorhouse of the abbey of Ely, to which a third of the land of the ancient settlement was granted c . 1000, (fn ...
2 days ago · In the year 1555 Rich granted the advowson to Queen Mary, and on her death it was inherited by Queen Elizabeth; who in 1560 regranted it to Rich. Whether Rich exercised his right of patronage and presented Ralph Watson in 1565, or whether Queen Elizabeth presented by lapse, is not recorded.
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Great Gransden parish is 10 miles south-east of the county town, Huntingdon. The whole parish is broad and covers an area of 3,402 acres. The village stands on the B1046 road between Abbotsley, to the west, and Longstowe, to the east. Minor roads run south-west to Waresley and north-east to Caxton. This part of Huntingdonshire is in the small hills...
The Grade-I-listedparish church, dedicated to Saint Bartholomew, has a chancel with a 19th Century organ chamber, a vestry on the north side, nave, north aisle, south aisle, west tower and north and south porches. The church, or rather its predecessor, was mentioned in the Domesday Bookof 1086 but no remains from this time exist now. The tower was ...
The village's name is derived from "Granta's valley". The name appears as Grantandene in 973 and Grante(s)dene in the 1086 Domesday Book. Great Gransden's earliest surviving appearance in the written record is in 973 when its land was endowed to Thorney Abbey by Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester. Its older centre is made up of cottages grouped aroun...
Great Gransden has the oldest post mill in Britain.It was constructed around 1612 and has two storeys, with a flour dressing machine, inscribed 1774, on the second floor. The mill last worked around 1890, and was given to Huntingdonshire County Council in 1950. In 1957 the post mill was classisfied as an ancient monument, following this, a restorat...
Gransden and District Agricultural Society Annual Show has been held every year since 1891, with the exception of the years during Second World War. It is held on the last Saturday of September and is one of the few remaining shows of its type still running in England. Great Gransden has one pub, The Crown and Cushion. It also has a lawn tennis clu...
Sep 11, 2012 · Less well-connected individuals could wait ten or twenty years for the opportunity. The right to appoint a clergyman to a living was called an advowson and considered a form of property to be bought, sold and inherited. Typically an advowson sold for five to seven times the annual value of the living.
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5 days ago · Elizabeth Simmonds of Longstowe, Bovey's trustee, granted the advowson for one turn to John Crosse, rector 1679–1716, who presented his own son John, rector 1716–74. The patronage then reverted to the lords of the manor who exercised it until 1815.
