Chesterford History & Archaeology Society

Name: Honor Ridout – Student Lives through Cambridge University’s 800 Year History
Start: 2025-11-20
End: 2025-11-20
Location: The Chapel

Exploring our two thousand year history.

Experience the Past. Understand the Present.

The Chesterfords comprise two English villages in northern Essex, bordering southern Cambridge. Situated on the River Cam, approximately ten miles south of Cambridge and four miles north of the bustling market town of Saffron Walden.

The Chesterford History & Archaeology Society is interested in the Chesterfords’ two thousand-year history and what influences have shaped the way we live today.

Our Society arranges talks, encourages research and discussion in a friendly environment.

We also have junior members to develop their archaeological skills and an awareness of their historic environment.

2025 Village Dig

Following exceptional pre-medieval finds on the Audley Green building site in 2024, for our village dig in July 2025 we dug three test pits in garden land adjacent to this site.

Nothing which we found was conclusive evidence of an Anglo Saxon settlement. What we found the remains of what was probably a rubbish dump for builders waste! However, we had a good weekend with great support from our members and enthusiasm for the project, despite the rain on the final afternoon.