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Chesterton – in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England – is a village near Alwalton west of Yaxley. Chesterton is located 8 miles east of Peterborough. In the 17th Century, Chesterton was the home of John Dryden's family, who lived in Chesterton manor. In the 1870s, Chesterton was described as : "a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon; on the verge of the county, and on Ermine-street and the river Nen, 2½ miles SE of Castor r. station, and 5½ SW of Peterborough. Post town, Castor, under Peterborough. Acres, 1, 330. Real property, £2, 447. Pop., 129. Houses, 22." ==History== :Chesterton is rich in Roman history, with the name Chesterton meaning "Roman site farm/settlement". MR A. Guest presents the Romans appearance as impressive, when he states "The Roman colonisation of the parish was impressive. Their first appearance was military, a five acre fort at Water Newton on the North border of Chesterton, which was built in the mid first century to guard the crossing of the Nene. A Civil settlement soon appeared at the gates of the fort, this became Chesterton with its North and West boundary being the River Nene and Billings Brook respectively. Durobrivae was contained within this boundary, with a Roman Signal Station at its highest point near its Southern border." Another Roman feature in Chesterton is Chesterton mound, which is described as a 'Roman earthen barrow situated 380m north of Hill Farm on the crest of Chesterton Hill south of the remains of the Roman town Durobrivae. "There have been suggestions that the mound was used as a "Roman signal station and a Medieval beacon." : After the Romans left Chesterton, the village was drastically reduced in size with the Doomsday book, written in 1086, realving there were "a Lordship in two ploughs, 10 villagers and two smallholders who have three ploughs, a Church and a Priest." : St Michael's church, which is located on the north side of the village dates back to the 13th Century and has monuments of the Lord of the Chesterton Manor, which belonged to the Beville family. Also St Michael's is where the tomb of William Beville who died in 1487 is located. The Beville family built Chesterton manor in the 1600s with Robert Beville building the manor, However the family acquired the land in which the manor was built in 1378 after "the Norman Conquest" and the marriage of John Beville and Agnes Walderchef, until the manor was passed onto to the Dryden family at a later date. From 1927-37 the Rev Frank Buttle was rector of Chesterton with Haddon and Alwalton. :In 1933 Chesterton had electricity. However piped water was not installed into the village until 1939, which meant villagers had to use water from the local Billing Brook. This eventually led to a sewage system being completed in 1969. 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「Chesterton, Huntingdonshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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