Molesworth, Cambridgeshire
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Molesworth is a village in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom about 10 miles west of Huntingdon. The village has been designated a conservation area by Huntingdon District Council largely due to its typically rural English character that includes several listed buildings.
Saint Peters Church stands on the west of the village and consists of a chancel, nave and tower. The chancel was built around 1275 but the presence of several 12th century stones suggest an earlier stone church may have existed on the site.
In 1646 during the European Witch-hunt two people from Molesworth, John Winnick and Ellen Shepheard (along with others from the nearby village of Catworth) were examined as witches.
The village gives its name to RAF Molesworth, a Royal Air Force base with a history dating back to 1917. RAF Molesworth no longer has an active runway.
[edit] External links
- Works by Matthew Hopkins at Project Gutenberg
- The Discovery of Witches, available at Project Gutenberg.
