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Lolworth is a small village and civil parish in the district of South Cambridgeshire, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England, located approximately northwest of Cambridge city centre. It lies on the A14 between Cambridge towards Huntingdon which provides the only traffic access to the village. The Prime Meridian passes through the village only around 50 metres to the west of the crossroads in the centre of the village. ==History== Lolworth is a small village and parish, covering only . It owes its position to the Via Devana, the Roman road running from Cambridge to Huntingdon that became a turnpike between 1772 and 1876. In the early Middle Ages the village was well-populated for its size, with 154 adults registered for the poll tax of 1377, but the population declined sharply after that, perhaps due to a devastating fire caused by a thunderstorm of September 1393.〔Recorded by Thomas of Walsingham, a monk of St Albans, in his ''Historica Anglicana''〕 By 1524 there were only 17 taxpayers, and the 17 families comprising 90 people listed in 1728 occupied only 6 buildings. The population reached a peak in 170 in 1871 and has been relatively steady at around 130 since 1961.〔 The celebrated nineteenth century missionary Henry Martyn served in Lolworth as his first parish from 1803 to 1805, while he was a curate under Charles Simeon at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, before setting out for India and present-day Iran and Turkey. Listed as ''Lollesworthe'' in 1034 and ''Lolesuuorde'' in the Domesday Book, the village's name means "Enclosure of a man called Loll".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names )〕 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「Lolworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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