Clare College, CambridgeLocationTrinity Lane (map)Coordinates52°12′19″N0°06′54″E / 52.2052°N 0.1150°E / 52.2052; 0.1150 (Clare College)AbbreviationCLEstablished1326 (1326)Named afterElizabeth de ClareFormer namesUniversity Hall (1326–38)Clare Hall (1338–1856)Sister collegesOriel College, OxfordSt Hugh's College, OxfordMasterLoretta MinghellaUndergraduates484 (2022–23)Postgraduates266 (2022–23)NewspaperClareificationEndowment£187.5M (2024)VisitorChancellors of the Universityex officioWebsitewww.clare.cam.ac.ukUCSucs.clare.cam.ac.ukMCRmcr.clare.cam.ac.uk/about-the-mcrBoat clubClare Boat ClubMapLocation within Central CambridgeShow map of Central CambridgeLocation within CambridgeShow map of CambridgeClare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
CambridgeCity and district in Cambridgeshire, EnglandCity and non-metropolitan district in EnglandCambridge ( ) is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, 55 miles (89 km) north of London.
CambridgeshireCambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, Northamptonshire to the west, and Bedfordshire to the south-west. The city of Peterborough is the largest settlement. The county has an area of 3,389 km (1,309 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 906,814 in 2022.
Thorney AbbeyThorney Abbey, now the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, was a medieval English Benedictine monastery at Thorney, Cambridgeshire in The Fens of Cambridgeshire, United KingdomHistoryThe earliest documentary sources refer to a mid-7th century hermitage destroyed by a Viking incursion in the late 9th century. A Benedictinemonastery was founded in the 970s, and a huge rebuilding programme followed the Norman Conquest of 1066.AdvowsonAdvowson () or patronage is the right in English law of a patron (avowee) to present to the diocesan bishop (or in some cases the ordinary if not the same person) a nominee for appointment to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living, a process known as presentation (jus praesentandi, Latin: "the right of presenting"). The word derives, via French, from the Latin advocare, from vocare "to call" plus ad, "to, towards", thus a "summoning".
Domesday BookDomesday Book ( DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales historically believed to have been completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, though recent research by Medievalist professor Carol Symes indicates that this book might have been completed as late as 1098 to 1114.
HuntingdonshireHuntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. The district had a population of 180,800 at the 2021 census, and has an area of 354.3 square miles (918 km2). The largest towns are St Neots (33,410), Huntingdon (25,428), and St Ives (16,815). The district council is based in Huntingdon. Historically a county in its own right, Huntingdonshire's boundaries were established in the Anglo-Saxon era.
Æthelwold of WinchesterÆthelwold of Winchester (also Aethelwold and Ethelwold, 904/9 – 984) was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984 and one of the leaders of the tenth-century monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England. Monastic life had declined to a low ebb in England in the ninth century, partly because of the ravages caused by Viking attacks, and partly because of a preference for secular clergy, who were cheaper and were thought to serve the spiritual needs of the laity better.
HuntingdonHuntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there in 1599 and became one of its Members of Parliament (MP) in 1628. The former ConservativePrime Minister (1990–1997) John Major served as its MP from 1979 until his retirement in 2001.
Post millThe post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single central vertical post. The vertical post is supported by four quarter bars. These are struts that steady the central post. The body of the windmill can be turned around the central post to bring the sails into the wind.
Civil parishIn England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate.
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