CASTLE-CAMPS, a parish in Linton district, Cambridge; on the verge of the county, 3½ miles SW by W of Haverhill r. station. It has a post office under Cambridge. Acres, 2,703. Real property, £3,885. Pop., 901. Houses, 199. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given, at the Conquest, to Aubrey de Vere; conveyed, in 1580, by his successor, one of the Earls of Oxford, to Sutton; and given, by the latter, to the Charter-House, London. A castle of the De Veres stood on it; and appears to have been magnificent; but is now represented by only a deep moat round a farmhouse on its site. Large entrenchments of the East Angles and the Danes were in the parish; and these, with the castle, gave rise to the name of Castle-Camps. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £570.* Patron, the Charter-House of London. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel and a charity school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))