Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Wikipedia
Chesterton is a suburb in the northeast corner of Cambridge, England.
It is also the name of two electoral wards (West Chesterton and East Chesterton) in the city. These are roughly the same as the area normally called Chesterton: specifically the land North of the River Cam, east of Castle Hill and south of the Arbury and King's Hedges estates.
A large council estate makes up part of the East Chesterton area.
A local board of health (urban sanitary district) was formed for Chesterton in 1880, becoming Chesterton urban district under the Local Government Act 1894. This was abolished in 1912, with the urban area becoming part of the municipal borough of Cambridge, and the larger but less populous rural part forming part of the Milton parish.
Buses run seven times an hour to Cambridge city centre and six times an hour to each of Milton and Addenbrooke's Hospital.
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Link to site:
http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/ukvillages.nsf/b?open&ref=1E228D13ABD4067A802567FB0020BCBF
From here you can see a map and aerial photograph. It is now a suburb of Cambridge, and no longer the pretty village Pepys remembered.
References in the diary
- 1660
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May: 19