Kirtling

Also known as Kirtling, Cambridgeshire

Kirtling, together with Kirtling Green and Kirtling Towers, is a scattered settlement in the south-eastern edge of the English county of Cambridgeshire. It forms a civil parish with the nearby village of Upend to its north. The population of the settlement is included in the civil parish of Woodditton.

Key facts

UK place.official_name: Kirtling
UK place.country: England
UK place.region: East of England
UK place.os_grid_reference: TL687565
UK place.post_town: Newmarket
UK place.postcode_area: CB
UK place.postcode_district: CB8
UK place.shire_county: Cambridgeshire
UK place.population: 327
UK place.population_ref: (2011)
UK place.hide_services: Yes
UK place.website: http://www.kirtlingandupend.org/
UK place.static_image_name: Kirtling church - geograph.org.uk - 10168.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Kirtling All Saints parish church

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Encyclopedic overview

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Heritage
Population
Infant deaths in 1991
References
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==Heritage== From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Kirtling was known as Catlidge. Upend was originally called Upheme – old English for "the up-dwelling". Upend may once have been a separate village, but it had been absorbed into Kirtling before 1066. By 1086, Kirtling had become the most heavily populated parish in the neighbourhood. thumb|Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception and St Philip Neri, Kirtling A rich Cambridgeshire landowner named Oswi and his wife Leofflaed gave the parish of Kirtling to Ely Abbey around 1000. It later belonged to Earl (later King) Harold, who died in 1066. By 1086 it was probably held by an Englishman named Frawine of Kirtling.

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