Colne, Cambridgeshire

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[edit] Summary

Colne—in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England.Colne is a village near Earith north-east of St Ives.It is around 15 miles north of Cambridge where there are railway connections to London and East Anglia, it is around 7 miles from Huntingdon where there are also railway connections to London and the North. There are no shops in Colne itself but there is a Pub and a Church. The nearest shop is less than a mile away in Bluntisham to the south. Colne in the past has also been known as Collen (xiii cent.); Colneye (xiv cent.)."Colne" is pronounced "cone".

[edit] History

Colne suffered from a disastrous fire in 1844, but there still remains several 17th century half-timbered houses and cottages, thatched or tiled, and in the middle of the village on the west side of the street, there is a late 16th century house. Near to it is the Baptist Chapel built in 1870. The old church which stood a quarter of a mile north-west of the village was, for the most part, destroyed by the fall of the tower in 1896.A new church was subsequently built in the village.

[edit] Church

The ancient church of St Helen consisted of a chancel, nave, north aisle, south aisle, west tower entirely within the nave, and a south porch. The walls are chiefly of stone and rubble, but parts of it were brick and the roof was tiled