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Westwick is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Oakington and Westwick, in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is situated to the north-west of Cambridge. Earthworks suggest that it is a shrunken medieval village. In 1961 the parish had a population of 37. [1]
1930: Sir Charles Wentworth Stanley, of Bentley Corner, Trumpington Road, Cambridge [251] 1931: Sir Frederick Hiam of Cambridge [252] 1932: Major-General Sir Borlase Elward Wyndham Childs of Thriplow House, Cambs [253] 1933: Henry Gage Spicer, of " Holmwood", Sawston, Cambridge [254] 1934: Col. William Philip Cutlack, of Whewell House ...
County Notes Maze: Mazetown: County Down: Began as Long Kesh Detention Centre in 1971, before expanding to become HM Prison Maze in 1976. Well-known during The Troubles, it housed paramilitary prisoners from its establishment until its closure in 2000. Belfast: Belfast: County Antrim: Also known as the Crumlin Road Gaol. Opened in 1846 and ...
The County Jail, which stood to the southeast of the courthouse from about 1882 until its demolition in 1994, was a Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival style granite structure with brick and terra cotta features. The jail was the work of the Baltimore architect, Charles L. Carson. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The county has an area of 3,389 km 2 (1,309 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 906,814 in 2022. Peterborough, in the north-west, and Cambridge, in the south, are by far the largest settlements. The remainder of the county is rural, and contains the city of Ely in the east, Wisbech in the north-east, and St Neots and Huntingdon in the
This is a list of sheriffs and since 1974 high sheriffs of Cambridgeshire.. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial.
Talk about buyer’s remorse. Seven years ago, a small Massachusetts town purchased a majestic 1886 mansion for the bargain price of $1.75 million, saving it from demolition — but residents ...