Madingley
Sign in to saveMadingley is a small village near Cambridge, England. It is located close to the nearby villages of Coton and Dry Drayton on the western outskirts of Cambridge. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 210. The village was known as Madingelei in the Domesday Book of 1086, a name meaning "Woodland clearing of the family or followers of a man called Mada". Madingley is well known for its 16th-century manor house, Madingley Hall, which is owned by the University of Cambridge.
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Place details
- Locality
- South Cambridgeshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Madingley
- UK place.static_image_name
- Madingley village sign.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Madingley village sign in March 2008
- UK place.population
- 210
- UK place.population_ref
- 2011
- UK place.shire_district
- South Cambridgeshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Cambridgeshire
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Cambridgeshire
- UK place.post_town
- CAMBRIDGE
- UK place.postcode_district
- CB23
- UK place.postcode_area
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Cambridgeshire
- Population
- +237
- Image
- Cmglee Madingley high street.jpg
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
6 sectionsContents
- University of Cambridge
- Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
- Village life
- See also
- References
- External links
Madingley is a small village near Cambridge, England. It is located close to the nearby villages of Coton and Dry Drayton on the western outskirts of Cambridge. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 210. The village was known as Madingelei in the Domesday Book of 1086, a name meaning "Woodland clearing of the family or followers of a man called Mada". Madingley is well known for its 16th-century manor house, Madingley Hall, which is owned by the University of Cambridge.
==Madingley Hall== thumb|left|Madingley Hall, built in 1543, now home to the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education thumb|left|Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Madingley thumb|High Street with Village Hall (left) and pub sign thumb|St Mary Magdalene Church The village is home to Madingley Hall, which was built by Sir John Hynde in 1543 and occupied as a residence by his descendants until the 1860s. It is surrounded by parkland. Queen Victoria rented the Hall in 1860 for her son Edward (the future King Edward VII) to live in while he was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. The family sold the Hall in 1871 to Henry Hurrell.