Cambridge Street-Names

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.