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Meldreth is a village in South Cambridgeshire with about 1,600 inhabitants lying around 10 miles south-west of Cambridge. ==History== A large Bronze Age hoard was found near Meldreth railway station in the nineteenth century that is now in the collections of the British Museum.〔British Museum Collection ()〕 The village of Meldreth grew in Saxon times, and the parish is home to (Mettle Hill ) (formerly known as ''Motlowehyll'') that was probably the original meeting place of Armingford Hundred. Listed as ''Melrede'' in the Domesday Book, the village's name means "mill stream", named after the stream that rises at Melbourn Bury and flows north into the River Cam.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names )〕 Due to its proximity to Cambridge, much of the land has at some time been owned by colleges of the University of Cambridge. In the early 16th century, Christ's College moved to its Meldreth estate to escape the plague.〔 The Domesday Book compiled in 1086 has this listing for the village:
In 1952, the Royal Train carrying King George VI's body passed through the station on its journey from Sandringham to London. Residents gathered on the platform to pay their last respects to the King. The village still has a stocks and whipping post, the traditional medieval punishment, last used in the village in 1860. 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「Meldreth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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