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RefNoK509/6/6
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TitlePampisford
DescriptionPampisford lies to the west of Great Abington, separated from it by the A11 (originally a Roman Road) . The land eventually formed into two manors. One estate, held of Ely, eventually passed in 1789 to William Parker Hammond (VCH, Vol. VI, p. 107). Land which became the second manor came eventually to Queens' College, Cambridge. By the eighteenth century only Queens' College and the manorial lord (William Parker) held estates of any size. R.J.H. Griffiths (Mortlock: Two Cambridge Dynasties, unpublished Ms available in Cambridgeshire Archives) lists firm evidence for the Mortlock family in Pampisford to wills proved in 1525 and 1526 (p. 1). By the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century the first John Mortlock (the banker's grandfather) was established in the wool trade. He is referred to in this archive as 'of Pampisford' (elsewhere as 'John I'). By 1700 he had moved to Cambridge, but continued to own the family lands in Pampisford, which passed in due course to his grandson. Under his son, John 'woollen draper' (or John II) the business in Cambridge flourished. John Mortlock (the banker) added to the family lands by buying Pampisford Rectory before 1799 (at Inclosure in 1801 he was allotted 435 acres for great tithe and rectorial glebe) and the land descended in the Mortlock family until Edmund John who had sold the Rectory Farm before1882 (VCH, Vol VI, p. 108). This land lay alongside the present A11, opposite similar Mortlock land in Great and Little Abington.
Date1635-1866
CreatorNameMortlock Bank and Estate
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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