"Cambridgeshire, (Cambs.) inland eastern
county of England; bounded North by Lincolnshire, East by Norfolk and Suffolk, South by Essex and Herts, West by Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire; greatest length, North and South, 48 miles; greatest breadth, East and West, 28 miles; average breadth 16 miles; area, 524,935 acres; population 185,594. The North section of the county, including the Isle of Ely and part of the Great Bedford Level, is a large flat expanse of country, which, for the most part, formerly consisted of fen and marsh. It is now intersected in all directions by wide trenches or canals. The land, thus drained and reclaimed, is a rich, black soil, and bears excellent crops. From this tract the pleasant vale of the Cam stretches away to the south-west, and contains a great number of excellent dairy farms. Cambridgeshire comprises 17 hundreds, 172 parishes with parts of 7 others, the parliamentary and municipal borough of Cambridge (1 member and Cambridge University 2 members), and the municipal borough of Wisbech (pronounced Wizbeech)."
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Bartholemew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]
Pilgrim Home in Over, Cambridge, England where Nathaniel Dring, son of Johnson Dring and Elizabeth Nunn, resided with his family. Notice that many of the windows are boarded up. The crown ordered a window tax and so many of the windows were boarded up to avoid paying the tax. The house still stands and is lived in today.
View of Over Village about 1900 from the collection of William Stokley Alexander Dring
Over Village c 1900 A street scene with several people. In the background is the Over village hall
The Pilgrim House, Over
Another view of Nathaniel Drings birthplace. The image from the reverse of the picture is reproduced below.
A road in Over in 2000
On entering the village I stopped to photograph the church spire in the distance, I had just happened to stop by this road sign!
