Burrough Green
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Burrough Green is a village and parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Described in Kelly’s Directory (1929) as a "village and parish 2½ miles south-east from Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern Railway and 6 south from Newmarket, in the hundred of Radfield, Newmarket union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Cheveley, archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
The Reading Room at Burrough Green was built in 1887 by the late Mrs Porcher, as a memorial to her husband, Charles Porcher esq.; it is in general use during the winter months, and will hold about 130 persons. The Old Hall (or Manor House), which stands near the church, is now a farmhouse. The soil is various; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area of the parish is 2,272 acres; the population in 1921 was 334."
Burrough Green Primary School has been in existence for over 400 years. It provides an excellent education for around 100 children. There is also an after school club and a nurserY on site. The school uses the reading room mentioned above for lunch times and also has a swimming pool.
There is also a cricket club in the village which plays on the village green and competes with other local villages.
In 1852, Mrs Mary Wedge (the wife of the Rector at Burrough Green, Rev Charles Wedge MA) wrote of Burrough Green as follows: “...In the village there have been several deaths...there are no cricketers now, and the Green is always full of Donkeys and Horses, but we are a very quiet set and there is never anything stirring here...How many changes we have seen around us. Newmarket too is altered, the houses are better, the shops are all improved, but the races are very much gone off, and we have a railroad to London, Cambridge and Bury, and a station at Newmarket and a small station at Dullingham, so if we want to go to London we have only to drive to Dullingham and in a very short time we reach that busy place, but I have never been there since your sister left England. I hardly ever stir from home, neither does your Father...”
