A F Wareham, A P M Wright
'Cherry Hinton: Charities for the poor', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002), pp. 117. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18813 Date accessed: 21 November 2009. > Add to my bookshelf
CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.
In 1660
Hinton's town land charity owned one cottage
and 10 a., for which at inclosure in 1810 4 a.
and 6 a. were respectively allotted. (fn. 11) One of
those allotments was exchanged with John Okes
in 1832 for land near the chalk pits. The cottages
belonging to the charity were in poor condition
in 1832. In 1883 the charity owned four almshouse cottages along Mill End Road. In 1960
the almspeople paid 50d. a week in rent for each
almshouse. In the late 20th century grants from
the city council have paid for maintenance costs,
while occupants continued to pay rents.
Footnotes
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Para. based on Report on charities of Cambs., vi. 117; Char. Com. file 200834. |