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The Abingtons are a community in South Cambridgeshire consisting of two villages: Little Abington and Great Abington, south east of Cambridge. == History == Though often listed as a single entity, Great and Little Abington have since early medieval times been two parishes divided by the River Granta and remain so. The southernmost of the two, Great Abington, covers and is bounded to the south by the county border with Essex, to the west by a branch of the Icknield Way (now the A11), and to the east by the parish of Hildersham. Little Abington covers , again bordered by the Icknield Way and Hildersham to the west and east, and by the ancient thoroughfare of Wool Street to the north. The village history dates back to the Bronze Age, some 4000 years ago. The Saxons gave the village its name, originally called "Abba's Farm," and the village was listed as ''Abintone'' in the Domesday Book.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names )〕 The Great and Little came later, long after the two manors on either side of the river were allotted to different people at the Norman Conquest. In the decades before the Second World War the Land Settlement Association created a site to the south of Great Abington consisting of over sixty houses and plots of land for unemployed miners mainly from the coalfields of Yorkshire and Durham. The Cambridge to Haverhill railway line that opened in 1865 crossed Great Abington just south of the village, but closed in 1967.〔 The medieval Cambridge to Colchester road that was the main route through the village was by-passed in the 1960s.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Abingtons, Cambridgeshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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