Cambridge Street-Names
Their Origins and Associations

An illustrated compendium of the meanings of street-names in the city of Cambridge, first published in 2000.

Ronald Gray (Author), Derek Stubbings (Author), Virén Sahai (Illustrated by)

9780521789561, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 October 2000

180 pages, 8 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.22 kg

This book, first published in 2000, draws on the great wealth of associations of street-names in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary, but it provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century British scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers, and builders. It includes hermits and coal merchants, field marshals and laundresses, martyrs and bombers, unscrupulous politicians and the founder of a Christian community, Cromwell and Newton, an Anglo-Saxon queen and the discoverer of Uranus - all people who lived in or often visited Cambridge. The ancient Stourbridge fair is included, along with castles and boat-races, sewage pumps and the original Hobson of 'Hobson's Choice'. Who was St Tibb? Where did Dick Turpin hide? Where was the medieval takeaway? Unlike earlier works, this is a history of everybody for everybody.

1. What do street-names mean?
2. How can you tell?
3. Prehistoric
4. Roman
5. Anglo-Saxon
6. Medieval
7. Barnwell
8. Town and gown
9. The beginning of the university
10. The Reformation
11. The Renaissance and science
12. The Civil War
13. The eighteenth century
14. War against Napoleon
15. George IV and his wife
16. Queen Victoria's reign
17. The British Empire
18. Coprolite mining
19. Coal, corn and iron
20. Brewers
21. Trams and buses
22. Nineteenth-century historians, antiquaries and lawyers
23. Nineteenth-century scientists
24. Nineteeth-century bishops and clergy
25. The 'Kite' area
26. Sport
27. Builders and developers
28. Places in Cambridge
29. Hospitals
30. A poet
31. Mayors
32. Churches and saints
33. The High Stewards: unprotected protectors
34. Inclosures
35. The twentieth century.

Subject Areas: Educational: Citizenship & social education [YQN], British & Irish history [HBJD1], Lexicography [CFM]