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A planning application to build a new café and store on land adjacent to Eaton Socon Cricket Club is set to be reviewed at a St Neots Town Council meeting. ....
Eaton Socon green with the war memorial and St Mary s Church. - Credit: ARCHANT Eaton Socon and Eaton Ford were originally in Bedfordshire but were transferred to the council district of Huntingdonshire in 1965 and Cambridgeshire in 1974. The area has seen huge growth in recent years in terms of housing, business and amenities. In fact, the population of Eaton Socon and Eaton Ford have more than doubled between 1931 and 2001 and is now 9,042. Eaton Socon is mentioned as Eaton in the Domesday Book when the manor belonged to Eudo Dapifer. In the 13th Century it became a Soke, which meant it was independent of the Hundred Cout at Barford. In time, Soke became Socon. ....
EJ Bass, from Eynesbury, pictured in 1899. - Credit: St Neots Museum St Neots has a proud sporting heritage that is celebrated in the St Neots Museum with displays about some of the town’s sporting heroes. Until the industrial revolution of the early 1800s everyday life was strenuous enough to keep most working people fit. Many local men were farm workers and women’s lives before the invention of the washing machine and vacuum cleaner involved daily heavy labour. It was during the early Victorian period, as the population increased dramatically and people began to move away from the land and into towns that organised team games for men. ....