July2021

17 Buckden Roundabout July 2021 Village News July 2021 At the time of writing, your local library is still open and en- joying seeing so many of you browsing and choosing books. Hands Face Space is still key - we have hand sanitiser stations throughout the library, ask all visitors to wear a face covering (unless exempt) and are limiting customer numbers to allow for good social distancing. Larger libraries have moved towards their full, pre - lockdown opening hours and we hope that Buckden will do so soon. Please keep an eye on Cambridgeshire Libraries website, and information in the library windows, for changes to our hours. for essential use only to access public services. Our opening hours remain the same for now: • Tuesday - 2pm - 6pm • Friday - 10am - 2pm Our library computers are still available for you to use. Please book on line or call Customer Services on the number below to reserve a time. Many people have enjoyed our Select and Collect service during lockdown, and this continues to be available for you. Using the form available on our website or by calling Custom- er Services you can tell us what you like to read by author, genre or subject and library staff will select books based on your choices for you to collect. Can ’ t get to us? Then we can come to you. Our Library at Home service is operating and can deliver books to you. Get in touch with Buckden library or our customer service team on the number below to find out more. Village Hall, Burberry Road, Buckden Tel: 0345 045 5225 www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/library The Library Presents are delighted to announce the launch of their new season of exciting arts events which will run from May to July 2021. The season will bring workshops and performances to out- door locations across Cambridgeshire and offer arts activities online. Full details of the programme, along with booking infor- mation can be found at www.library.live/the - library - presents WHERE IN BUCKDEN ….? While doing some research on Buckden village in Tudor times, I came across the names of some intriguing roadways – which are no longer with us …. It is clear from the Enclosure Map of Buckden in 1813 that there are several roadways or lanes leading to the various fields around the village – giving access to those fields for the various landowners. However, there are more than a dozen and they are all labelled ‘ Private Road No 1, 2’ etc. The North Road is marked as is Offord Road although the name Mill Road applies to more of it than now! The end of the village was then, as in Tudor times, where the two white houses now stand opposite to each other on Mill Road ie number 31 and Oak Lawn. They stand on ancient plots. Some of the present streets have names that would have been unfamiliar to our Tudor forebears – School Lane was formerly Bakers Lane and finished at the corner where it now meets Greenway. Silver Street was formerly Hoo Baulk in the village being a green lane separating two distinct field areas and on a raised bank, (a hoe or hoo) and after which presumably The Hoo is named. Taylors Lane seems to have been Tailleurs Lane, an old French word for wood choppers and must led to wooded areas to the west of the present A1; while York Yard seems to have been The Brickle because there was a brick making yard there. This is not surprising when you look at the bricks that were used for the Palace and which required the services of a Flem- ish brickmaker. The clay was dug locally – some from ‘ Brickhouse Leys ’ which seems to have been somewhere in the fields where the Osiers stands now. However, I have been unable to find a clue for Hogshersd Close or The Pightle, but I think the first one must be near the line of woods so that the pigs could feed there. I guess Pear Tree Close was near an orchard with pear trees! However, Pease Furlow seems to now be Leadens ’ Lane, but I am unable locate Harthay Close or more intriguingly, Hobgob- lin Lane. Looking at the old maps closely, Harling Way would seem to be an early version of the Ouse Valley Way as it stretches along the river bank from Diddington to the ford and bridge at Offord (Upeforde). We tend to think that all the names have always been here, but I think that in the nineteenth century when land owner- ship was tightened up, many of the old names were lost and it was the landowners of the time who took a chance at giving themselves some immortality. Perhaps you know better? Linda Upham