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Great Gransden history
The village name translates as “valley of a man named Granta or Grante” It was spelled Grantandene in 973 and Grante(s)dene in the 1086 Domesday book. The connection between the village and Clare College, Cambridge appears to date from 1346.
School and founder
Barnabas Oley, Vicar from 1633, was a Fellow of Clare College who edited the works of the poet and orator George Herbert. Oley was one of the university’s most active Royalists in the English Civil War. The village school he founded in 1670 bears his name.
Notable people
Anne Dutton (1692–1765), religious tractarian and poet, and her clothier husband Benjamin, a Baptist minister, moved to the village and paid for a chapel to be built there. James Plumptre (1771–1832), dramatist, served as Vicar of Great Gransden church from 1812 until his death. Arthur Tozer Russell (1806–1874) hymn-writer, served curate of Great Gransden church in 1829–1830.
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