St Neots Walk Town Centre【4K】

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Located in the county of Cambridgeshire, and around 50 miles north of London, is the town of St Neots. • The town's name comes from the 9th century monk Saint Neot who lived out his latter years in Cornwall. Around 974 AD, a priory was established near where the town of St Neots lies today. The landowner took the relics of Saint Neot from the Cornish church and conveyed them to Eynesbury. This brought fame to the Eynesbury Priory, and gradually that part of the town became known as St Neots. • In 1130 a market charter was granted to St Neots, during the reign of Henry I. In 1180 a wooden bridge was built over the River Great Ouse, at the location of the present-day bridge. Tolls were collected by the priory, which closed centuries later, in 1534 at the onset of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. Allegedly there is no record of what happened to the bones of Saint Neot himself. • In 1648 the Battle of St Neots took place during the Second English Civil War. The battle was essentially a skirmish centred on the area around Market Square, with around 100-200 troops on either side. The Royalists were taken by surprise and quickly overwhelmed. Some drowned in the River Great Ouse trying to escape, whilst others were taken prisoner. • Historically, industry in St Neots consisted of corn milling and brewing as well as being a coaching stop for travellers heading between London and the north, owing to its position along the Great North Road. The arrival of the railway in the town in 1850 brought about the decline of the town's coaching inns, although it ultimately aided with its growth. The station was originally opened by the Great Northern Railway. Today it is situated on the East Coast Main Line with direct services between Peterborough to the north and London Kings Cross to the south, as well as Horsham via London St Pancras. The station is about a mile east of the town centre. • St Neots was historically a part of the county of Huntingdonshire. This was up until 1974 when the county was swallowed up by neighbouring Cambridgeshire, to which it now belongs. Huntingdonshire does still exist, albeit as a non-metropolitan district, whose council is based in the town of Huntingdon. • 👇 SUBSCRIBE TO 4K EXPLORER FOR NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK 👇 • https://www.youtube.com/4KExplorer?su... • Filmed: 26th February 2022 • Link to the walk on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/rCWxroKoGkgTDrtA9 • Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone. • TIMESTAMPS: • 0:00 Hen Brook • 1:38 Saint Neots Parish Church • 2:03 Brook Street • 3:15 Saint Neots Parish Church • 3:23 Brook Street • 5:02 South Street • 5:40 Market Place • 7:42 Market Square • 8:33 River Great Ouse • 9:33 Market Square • 12:33 New Street • 14:18 High Street • 17:27 Huntingdon Street

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